A hunger so wide and so deep : American women speak out on eating problems /

A hunger so wide and so deep : American women speak out on eating problems / Becky W. Thompson.

The first of its kind, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep challenges the popular notion that eating problems occur only among white, well-to-do, heterosexual women. Becky W. Thompson shows us how race, class, sexuality, and nationality can shape women's eating problems. Based on in-depth life history...

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Main Author: Thompson, Becky W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1994.
Subjects:
Eating disorders > Etiology.
Abused women > Mental health.
Minority women > Mental health.
Eating disorders > Etiology > Social aspects.
Eating disorders > Etiology > Political aspects.
Women > Social conditions.
Simmons University authors. Thompson, Becky W.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Making "a Way outa No Way"
  • 2. Childhood Lessons; Culture, Race, Class, and Sexuality
  • 3. Ashes Thrown up in the Air
  • 4. Hungry and Hurting
  • 5. A Thousand Hungers
  • 6. In the Mourning There Is Light.

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