Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

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.

Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa and The Body Project are both award-winning books by Joan Jacobs Brumberg. Stephen H. is her name. She is the Weiss Professor of History, Human Development, and Women's Studies at Cornell University, where she teaches in the subjects of history, human development, and women's studies. The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony have all honored her research and compassionate writing about American women and girls. She currently resides in Ithaca, New York. The Berkshire Book Prize for the best book by a woman historian, granted by the Berkshire Women's History Conference (1988); the John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies, provided by the American Studies Association (1989); and the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for the best book in the area of gender and mental health, given by the Society for Medicinal Anthropology, given by the Society for Medicinal Anthropology, given by the Society for Medicinal Anthropology, given by the Society for

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ISBN 13	9780375724480
ISBN 10	0375724486
Title	Fasting Girls
Author	Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-10-10
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of John Hope Franklin Publication Prize 1989
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