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Author Thompson, Becky W

Title A hunger so wide and so deep : American women speak out on eating problems / Becky W. Thompson
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 161 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; 1. Making "a Way outa No Way"; 2. Childhood Lessons: Culture, Race, Class, and Sexuality; 3. Ashes Thrown up in the Air; 4. Hungry and Hurting; 5. A Thousand Hungers; 6. In the Mourning There Is Light; Biographical Sketches; Notes; Index
Summary Based on in-depth life history interviews with African-American, Latina, and white women--both lesbian and heterosexual--this book chronicles the effects of racism, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women's bodies and eating patterns
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Eating disorders -- Etiology
Abused women -- Mental health
Minority women -- Mental health
Eating disorders -- Etiology -- Social aspects
Eating disorders -- Etiology -- Political aspects
Women -- Social conditions.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Feeding and Eating Disorders -- etiology
Minority Groups -- psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Women -- psychology
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Eating Disorders.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Abused women -- Mental health
Eating disorders -- Etiology
Minority women -- Mental health
Women -- Social conditions
Essstörung
Sozialmedizin
Soziokultureller Faktor
Frau
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816685868
081668586X