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Aimee Liu, who wrote Solitaire , the first-ever memoir of anorexia, in 1979, returns to the subject nearly three decades later and shares her story and those of the many women in her age group of life beyond this life-altering ailment. She has extensively researched the origins and effects of... read more
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First Sentence edit
My friend Carol, calling from Santa Fe, sounded elated as she told me her news: after thirty years, she'd finally located our high school classmate Candy Lunt.
Table of Contents edit
Author's Note
Introduction: To Gain Is Good
I. KNOW THYSELF: Temperamental Truths
1. Connecting the Dots: A Genetic Link
2. Portrait of a Hunger Artist: The Face of Fear
3. The Laws of Perfection: Obsession and Compulsion
4. Wanting for Nothing: Avoidance
5. Good Bad Girls: Shame
II. THE PHYSICS OF NORMALCY: Personal Relationship
6. A Certain Self: Identity and Independence
7. Terms of Endearment: Family Dynamics
8. Growing Children: Parenthood
9. Love and Other Terrors: Honor and Intimacy
III. A WIDER WORLD: Consumer Society and Body Image
10. Consuming Passions: Competing for Health
11. The Wisdom of Age: Maturity in a Youth Culture
12. Gaining Power: Becoming Agents for Change
Acknowledgments
Appendix I: Resources for Information and Activism
Appendix II: Suggestions for Parents
Selected Bibliography
Index
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 613
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