A Hunger So Wide And So Deep [signed] A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems

Thompson, Becky

ISBN 10: 0816624356 / ISBN 13: 9780816624355

Published by University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 1994

About this Item

DJ has some light scuffing, and a few small chips. ; Signed by author on title page. ; 176 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Hunger So Wide And So Deep [signed] A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816624356
• ISBN 13: 9780816624355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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

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).