The obsessionKim Chernin
The obsession
Kim Chernin · 1981
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About the book
The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies—a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.
First sentence: I REMEMBER THE FIRST time I ate compulsively.
Book details
- Year
- 1981
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Editions
- 4
- ISBN
- 9780061659478
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