Full name: Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa

Author: Joan Jacobs Brumberg Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Psychology, Feminism, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375724480 0375724486

Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, "wonders of science" whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and air, silent screen stars whose strict "slimming" regimens inspired a generation. Here, too, is a fascinating look at how the cultural ramifications of the Industrial Revolution produced a disorder that continues to render privileged young women helpless. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, Fasting Girls offers real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease. Similar books: Going Hungry by Kate Taylor The Obsession by Kim Chernin Gaining by Aimee Liu For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich Appetites by Caroline Knapp The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Women of the Asylum by Jeffrey L. Geller Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles Bedlam by Catharine Arnold Hope in a Jar by Kathy Peiss Sex and Punishment by Eric Berkowitz Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien Game of Queens by Sarah Gristwood Misogyny by Jack Holland Unmentionable by Therese Oneill Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose Brothel by Alexa Albert