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Fasting Girls
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Fasting Girls (1988) (edit title/settings)

The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease

by Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Author) (edit contributors)

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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 starvation to demonstrate religious devotion,... read more

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new permissiveness in many areas of social behavior, parents in the 1960s were counseled against taking adolescent food refusal lightly or allowing it to continue.

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  1. Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0674295013
Page Count: 368

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