Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by University of Minnesota Press, 1996
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Reno
AbeBooks seller since May 25, 2012
Condition: Used - Good
£ 5.59
Item description from seller
Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Seller Inventory # G0816624356I3N00
- Title
- Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems
- Author
- Thompson, Becky
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0816624356
- ISBN 13
- 9780816624355
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 0.59 pounds
A new feminist classic--now in paper!
Based on in-depth life history interviews with African-American, Latina, and white women-both lesbian and heterosexual-this book chronicles the effects of racism, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women’s bodies and eating patterns.
“A wonderful book: gripping, creative and profoundly humane. In lucid prose Thompson offers an original explanation for women’s eating problems. She argues that many women turn to food-bingeing, dieting, purging, or starving- as a sensible means of coping with physical and psychic ‘atrocities’ deriving from ‘racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, the stress of acculturation, and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.’” Women’s Review of Books “Surprising and alarming. . . . Thompson urges a second look at our national obsession with weight and proffers theories and practices that could save the lives of women of all colors and sexual orientations.” Lambda Book Report “Thompson breaks new ground and offers hope for the multitudes of women who have swallowed their pain.” Evelyn C. White, Editor, The Black Women's Health Book"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Becky W. Thompson is an assistant professor of sociology at the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis and coeditor (with Sangeeta Tyagi) of Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence (Minnesota, 1993).
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.