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This work challenges the popular notion that eating disorders occur only among white, well-to-do, heterosexual women. It chronicles the effects of racism, poverty, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women's eating patterns and bodies.

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Making "a way outa no way"; childhood lessons - culture, race, class and sexuality; ashes thrown up in the air; hungry and hurting; a thousand hungers; in the mourning there is light.

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/07/1996
      ISBN13: 9780816624355, 978-0816624355
      ISBN10: 0816624356

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work challenges the popular notion that eating disorders occur only among white, well-to-do, heterosexual women. It chronicles the effects of racism, poverty, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women's eating patterns and bodies.

      Table of Contents
      Making "a way outa no way"; childhood lessons - culture, race, class and sexuality; ashes thrown up in the air; hungry and hurting; a thousand hungers; in the mourning there is light.

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