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Fasting Girls
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Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2000-10-10
Fasting Girls written by Joan Jacobs Brumberg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-10 with Psychology categories.
An acclaimed classic from the award-winning author of The Body Project presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century, providing compassion to victims and their families. 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 ability to survive on flower petals and air, silent screen stars whose strict "slimming" regimens inspired a generation. Here, too, is a fascinating look at how the cultural ramifications of the Industrial Revolution produced a disorder that continues to render privileged young women helpless. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, Fasting Girls offers real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease.
The Fasting Girl
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Author : Michelle Stacey
language : en
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date : 2002
The Fasting Girl written by Michelle Stacey and has been published by Tarcher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Why? Because Fancher, experiencing chronic paralysis, trances, and seizures, was also reportedly able to "live on air." For more than a decade, it was widely reputed, she ate almost nothing. Her case became a lightning rod for physicians and theologians who locked horns over her controversial ability, inspiring a frenzy of tabloid hype and scientific debate." "The Fancher case has remained an unsolved mystery ever since. How, and how much, did she eat? Was Mollie a media-hungry fraud, playing on a public desire for miracles, or simply hysterical, emotionally disturbed, delusional? Was she history's first victim of anorexia nervosa, or a sufferer of anorexia mirabilis, the medieval phenomenon of "fasting saints"? Or was she merely a product of her time and place - an anxious crossroads of nineteenth-century nervousness and twentieth-century neurosis, heightened by rapid industrial progress and an intensified pace of life?"--BOOK JACKET.
Fasting Girls
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Author : William Alexander Hammond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Fasting Girls written by William Alexander Hammond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.
Fasting Girls
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Author : William Alexander Hammond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Fasting Girls written by William Alexander Hammond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Anorexia in children categories.
Fasting Girls
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Author : William A. Hammond
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-07-18
Fasting Girls written by William A. Hammond and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-18 with Fiction categories.
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Fasting Girls
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Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2000
Fasting Girls written by Joan Jacobs Brumberg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Psychology categories.
An acclaimed classic from the award-winning author of The Body Project presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century, providing compassion to victims and their families. 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 ability to survive on flower petals and air, silent screen stars whose strict "slimming" regimens inspired a generation. Here, too, is a fascinating look at how the cultural ramifications of the Industrial Revolution produced a disorder that continues to render privileged young women helpless. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, Fasting Girls offers real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease.
Fasting Girls
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Author : Hammond William Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-23
Fasting Girls written by Hammond William Alexander and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with categories.
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The Welsh Fasting Girl
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Author : Varley O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Release Date : 2019-05-07
The Welsh Fasting Girl written by Varley O'Connor and has been published by Bellevue Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Fiction categories.
Praise for the Previous Novels of Varley O’Connor “Thoroughly researched and lively.” —Vogue “Elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.” —Michael Chabon “Honesty and compassion inform every page, and there are passages so musical and full of grace they read like hymns. Reading groups should rejoice.” —Sigrid Nunez “[O’Connor] captures the dangerous intersection between private life and the forces of history . . . and gives the reader that rare pleasure of inhabiting another family life that feels at once entirely familiar and new.” —Susan Richards Shreve Twelve-year-old Sarah Jacob was the most famous of the Victorian fasting girls, who claimed to miraculously survive without food, serving as flashpoints between struggling religious, scientific, and political factions. In this novel based on Sarah’s life and premature death from what may be the first documented case of anorexia, an American journalist, recovering from her husband’s death in the Civil War, leaves her home and children behind to travel to Wales, where she investigates Sarah’s bizarre case by becoming the young girl’s friend and confidante. Unable to prevent the girl’s tragic decline while doctors, nurses, and a local priest keep watch, she documents the curious family dynamic, the trial that convicted Sarah’s parents, and an era’s hysterical need to both believe and destroy Sarah’s seemingly miraculous power. Intense, dark, and utterly compelling, The Welsh Fasting Girl delves into the complexities of a true story to understand how a culture’s anxieties led to the murder of a child. Varley O’Connor is the author of five novels, including The Welsh Fasting Girl, The Master’s Muse, and The Cure. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Fasting Girls
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Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Fasting Girls written by Joan Jacobs Brumberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Anorexia nervosa categories.
Fasting Girls Their Physiology And Pathology
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Author : William Alexander Hammond
language : en
Publisher: Tredition Classics
Release Date : 2012
Fasting Girls Their Physiology And Pathology written by William Alexander Hammond and has been published by Tredition Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
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