[PDF.00eq] From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation

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

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 | #2075680 in Books |  NYU Press |  1994-07-01 |  1994-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .98 x5.41 x8.48l,.85 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent|By skwal@sunline.net|A very intense history of eating disorders, patterns of the illness, and examples of how society has viewed food denial in different ways. The book covers the saints who abstained from food, Victorian hysterics, and tragic cases like the Welsh Fasting Girl. Men are covered as well as women, and it is very well written, thoughtful and worth a read.|From Library Journal|Dutch psychologists Vandereycken and Van Deth survey the historical, literary, medical, and social interpretations of self-induced starvation. These range from signs of sanctity or demonic possession in ancient times to religious wonder, cur

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 history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hit the stands, obsession with bod...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation   |  W. Vandereycken, Ron Van Deth. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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