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400 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780375724480
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 10 October 2000
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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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400 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780375724480
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 10 October 2000
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings