Vintage, 2010. — 400 p. Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls , presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, "wonders of science" whose families capitalized on their...
HarperCollins, 2010. — 288 p. In Brave Girl Eating , the chronicle of a family’s struggle with anorexia nervosa, journalist, professor, and author Harriet Brown recounts in mesmerizing and horrifying detail her daughter Kitty’s journey from near-starvation to renewed health. Brave Girl Eating is an intimate, shocking, compelling, and ultimately uplifting look at the ravages of...
[joonistas ja kujundas Maarika Grigor ; toimetas Anu Jõesaar]. — [Tartu] : Otto Wilhelm, 2017 ([Tallinn] : Printon). — 128 lk. : ill. Kui Eliis oli 14aastasena anoreksia diagnoosiga haiglaravil, otsustas ta hakata oma teadmisi söömishäiretest ja haiglas kogetust kirja panema. Oma päeviku põhjal kirjutas ta aasta hiljem käesoleva raamatu. See on valus ja lõbus lugu ühest...
January 2005 ISBN: 0-06-077535-1 PerfectBound, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Pages: 297 Childhood Bulimia The Actor's Part Interlude Methodist Hospital, Take Persephone Herself Is but a Voice Interlude Lockup Waiting for Godot Interlude Dying Is an Art, Like Everything Else Present Day Marya Hornbacher is a journalist as well as a writer of fiction and memoir. Her first book,...
Warner Books, 1981. — 253 p. I am Kessa! My parents call me Francesca, and sometimes I answer. But the Francesca who was me is disappearing. The Dietrichs' good little girl is dropping away with every bit of fat. Kessa doesn't have to eat--eating is messy, not clean. I'll just move the food around on my plate, and they'll think I've eaten some. Then I'll go to my room and...
Accent Press (UK), 2009. — 248 p. Katie Metcalfe takes readers through the daily struggle with this potentially lethal obsession. It is a harrowing account of her triumphs and tragedies on the long road to recovery after being hospitalized at 15. We learn of Katie's constant battle with 'the voice' when her pride at improving her health is overshadowed by the fear of over...
Atria Books, 2010. - 320 p. "I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier..." Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have...
Dundurn, 2014. — 256 p. A fact-filled guide to coping with compulsive overeating problems by an experienced addictions doctor who draws on many patients’ stories of recovery. Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia: Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspectives of a medical researcher and dozens of survivors....
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