From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation by Walter Vandereycken

From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation

Walter Vandereycken

280 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
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With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on social pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as su...

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