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

by Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth

Book Overview

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0485241005
• ISBN13: 9780485241006
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: The Athlone Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"