Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa

Joan Jacobs Brumberg

400 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction health history psychology informative tense medium-paced
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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 s...

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