Fasting Girls

Name: Fasting Girls
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780375724480
Price: 17.41 EUR
Availability: InStock

Автор: Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Vintage Publishing

Наличност: Външен склад

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Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2001

страници

374

EAN

9780375724480

ISBN

0375724486

Enbook ID

02778696

Издател

Vintage Publishing

Теглоt

367

Размери

130 x 205 x 21

Пълно описание

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.

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