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Brumberg, Joan Jacobs Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
New York, New York, U.S.A. Plume 1989 0452263271 / 9780452263277 Trade Paperback Very Good
Very-nice, clean copy - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine, clean pages - Illustrated - NO remainder marks or clippings - 370 pages. Pages show tanning. Using materials drawn from historical and comtemporary medical publications and archives, Brumberg explores the significance of unexplained emaciation and refusal of food--the complex meaning of foods and eating in the lives of women. Historian Brumberg (Cornell) has produced an excellent study of anorexia nervosa from a Medieval form of sacred possession, to a Victorian curiosity, to a modern condition that experts cannot establish as a disease, neurosis, or socially induced condition. Using historical, medical, literary, and popular sources, Brumberg examines the role of healing professionals in defining the condition; the bourgeois values which demanded that upwardly mobile women appear unfit for productive and reproductive work; and the struggle for moral authority over 19th-century fasting girls that evolved between men of science and religion. Superbly written, meticulously researched, thoughtfully illustrated,
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Brumberg, Joan Jacobs The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Random House Inc 1997 0679402977 / 9780679402978 Trade Paperback Fine
Fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated with photos. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 268 pages. - Synopsis The Body Project is an extraordinary culmination of a decade of historical and contemporary research on American girlhood. . . . Brumberg is masterful at combining historical archival scholarship with lively insights from past and recent personal diaries and memoirs. People Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy. Biography The author of Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa, Joan Jacobs Brumberg is a Stephen H. Weiss Professor at Cornell University, where she holds a unique appointment teaching in the fields of history, human development, and women's studies. Her research and sensitive writing about American women and girls have been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in Ithaca, New York. Awards Brumberg has received include the Berkshire Book Prize for the best book by a woman historian, given by the Berkshire Women's History Conference (1988); the John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies, given by the American Studies Association (1989); the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for the best book in the area of gender and mental health, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology (1989); and the Watson Davis Prize for the best book in translating ideas for the public, given by the History of Science Society (1989).
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