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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls The History of SelfStarvation
Author: Walter Vandereycken, Ron Van Deth
With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on societal pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780756762780
ISBN-10: 0756762782
Pages: 296
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