The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
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Book Overview
Answers the need for help among the five million American women who suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phyllis... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0060925043
ISBN13:9780060925048
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
absolutely transfixing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book changed my life. I have read dozens of novels and texts on eating disorders, but only this one granted a new understanding and awarenss. Along with 'Women Who Run with the Wolves', by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'The Hungry Self' stands as an intensely emotional and complex piece on women and identity.
This book is revelatory, personal, complex and crucial.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Kim Chernin has explored the dangerous and complex world of women's eating disorders with more intelligence and research than most, and this book does the most justice to the power of her ideas. It would be a disservice to her to sum up Chapters here -- suffice it to say that anyone who truly wants to understand this important issue with respect to its depth and power should step up to Chernin's level.
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