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