The Body Project
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Adolescent girls today face the issues girls have always faced: "Who am I?" and "Who do I want to be?" Their answers, now more than ever before, revolve around the body rather than the mind, heart, or soul.
Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders
Patricia Fallone et al
A collection of 22 articles that synthesizes the considerable feminist thought on eating disorders over the past few years. They consider the history of eating disorders and the therapy for them, the contribution of women therapists, treatment issues, reconstructing the female text, and possible improvements in politics, advertising, education and research.
Eating Disorders, 2nd edition
Richard Gordon
The book is an effort to give a thorough account of the sociocultural factors that have facilitated the proliferation of eating disorders in modern societies. In the second edition, which is greatly expanded, many new research findings as well as recent social and clinical phenomena are discussed.
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