- Fat Talk
- Mimi Nichter
- The result of a study that followed hundreds of teen-aged girls for three years, Fat Talk brings to light the subtleties, the complexities, and the realities of girls' ideas about their shapes, their eating habits, and their physical ideals. Anthropologist Mimi Nichter uses an engaging narrative style to explore the influence of peers, family, and media on girls' sense of self. She finds that despite widespread dissatisfaction with one aspect or another of their bodies, the girls did not diet so much as talk about dieting. "Fat talk," Nichter wryly argues, is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of establishing solidarity.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- The Golden Cage
- Hilde Bruch
- Foreword by Catherine Steiner-Adair
- First published more than twenty years ago, with almost 150,000 copies sold, The Golden Cage is still the classic book on anorexia nervosa, for patients, parents, mental health trainees, and senior therapists alike. Writing in a jargon-free style, Bruch describes the relentless pursuit of thinness and the search for superiority in self-denial that characterize anorexia nervosa.
- Paperback 2001
- The Hunger Artists
- Maud Ellmann
- Hardcover
- Sensing the Self
- Sheila M. Reindl
- While many books describe the emotional and physical damage of eating disorders, this book describes recovery. Psychologist Sheila Reindl has listened intently to women's accounts of recovering and argues that people with bulimia nervosa need to develop a sense of self--to attune to their physical, psychic, and social self-experience.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002