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Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
Fasting Girls The History of Anorexia Nervosa
Author: 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 fam...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780452263277
ISBN-10: 0452263271
Publication Date: 10/30/1989
Pages: 370
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Publisher: Plume
Book Type: Paperback
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