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A deeply committed, eloquent analysis of the increasing demand that women be thin. "Kim Chernin quietly and thoroughly undermines--one hopes forever--the popular, widely endured tyranny of 'thinness' over women's bodies and souls."--Alice Walker"Eloquently written, passionate in its rhetoric and consistently absorbing." "--New York Times"

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Kim Chernin is a guest instructor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where she teaches a course in psychoanalytic models with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. She is the author of two books about eros and memory, Crossing the Border  and Sex and other Sacred Games  (with Renee Stendhal); a trilogy of books on hunger, The Obsession, The Hungry Self,   and Reinventing Eve;  a novel, The Flame Bearers;  a memoir, In My Mother's House;  a collection of poetry, The Hunger Song;  a book about psychoanalysis, A Different Kind of Listening;  and a spiritual memoir, In My Father's Garden.  She has studed music on her own since the age of seven, when she first began to play the piano.
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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.

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  • PublisherHarper Perennial
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 0060925051
  • ISBN 13 9780060925055
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  • Number of pages240
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