Becky W. Thompson
Copyright Date: 1994
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 176
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts6ds
Book Description:
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. By demonstrating how these girls and women use eating to “make a way outa no way,” A Hunger So Wide and So Deep dispels popular stereotypes of anorexia and bulimia as symptoms of vanity and stresses the risks of mislabeling what is often a way of coping with society’s own disorders.
eISBN: 978-0-8166-8586-8
Subjects: Psychology