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Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the pervasiveness of eating disorders among American women argues that numerous food-related health issues are linked to vulnerable periods in a woman's life and are typically disregarded in women older than twenty-five.
4) Thin
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This film takes us inside the walls of Renfrew Center, a residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders, closely following four young women who have spent their lives starving themselves-- often to the verge of death.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America's sweetheart at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America's most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly being written up everywhere from The New Yorker to Teen Vogue to People and baking cookies with Taylor Swift. But little did the public know what Gold was facing when the cameras were off. In 2017, she...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, and orthorexia, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, and illuminates the ways racism and today's feminism have been complicit in propping up the thin ideal. While examining GOOP, Simone...
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