Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity - Softcover

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195117913 ISBN 13: 9780195117912

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1997

Synopsis

In The Cult of Thinness, Sharlene Hesse-Biber builds on interviews with young women about their weight and body image and connects women's eating patterns to images in popular culture. Linking eating disorders to contemporary social, cultural, and economic pressures on women to be thin, Hesse-Biber argues that diet and workout industries profit from this cult of thinness and help to perpetuate it.

About this title

Review:

"[Hesse-Biber] makes the politics of weight personal as she provides therapeutic options for those seeking to overcome weight obsessions."--Booklist

"[G]ives a needed perspective on the artificial creation of a mind/body dichotomy, and offers solutions in the forms of social activism and education to combat what, for many anorexia sufferers, is a slow form of suicide."--Listener

About the Author:

Sharlene Hesse-Biber is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. The former director of the Women's Studies Program at Boston College, she is founding director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195117913
• ISBN 13: 9780195117912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204