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Appetites : why women want / Caroline Knapp.
Van Pelt Library RC552.A5 K636 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002--Health.
- Knapp, Caroline.
- Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.
- Anorexia nervosa--Patients--United States--Biography.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Appetite.
- Anorexia nervosa--Patients.
- Health.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 210 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Counterpoint, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this, her final book, completed shortly before her death last June, the bestselling author of "Drinking: A Love Story" and "Pack of Two" turns her brilliant eye toward how a woman's appetite--for food, for love, for work, and for pleasure--is shaped and constrained by culture.
- Contents:
- Add cake, subtract self-esteem
- The mother connection
- I hate my stomach, I hate my thighs
- From bra burning to binge shopping
- Body as a voice
- Swimming toward hope.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [211]).
- ISBN:
- 1582432252
- OCLC:
- 50868247
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