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Title: Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity by Sharlene Hesse-Biber ISBN: 0-19-511791-3 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: women responsible for grrrl power
Comment: Once you get past the rhetoric of victimization from the late 80s/early 90s feminist school, the book offers much information and insight from various studies on how an idea has been sold to us by men...and women.
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderfully informative
Comment: Dr. Hesse-Biber was my professor for a course I took, and we read this book for the class. I found the book to be personal, yet objective, and very informative. Hesse-Biber clearly outlines the causes of the 'cult of thinness' and does so in an organized manner. I recommend this book to ANY woman/mother/sister/daughter, etc....I also highly recommend MEN to read this book, and for everyone to be aware that the cult of thinness is not just a woman's issue.
Rating: 4
Summary: Tells It Like It Is
Comment: What's most interesting about this book is that it's written not by a medical professional or feminist or person recovering from an eating disorder with the usual agendas to pursue, but by a social scientist who maintains a surprisingly objective view of the phenomenon she analyzes. As mentioned below, the population she surveys is predominantly white and advantaged, but as she herself notes, this is verifiably the population involved in "the cult of thinness." What I find most interesting is that rather than advocate a fight-the-system approach as writers like Mary Phifer and Terry Poulton do in their books on the same subject, the author simply notes that, as long as sacrificing health and emotional well-being for staying thin really does provide these women with the rewards they seek (the choicest mates, more opportunities for advancement in business, a feeling of self-worth and accomplishment), there is in truth not a lot of incentive for these women to change their disordered behavior.
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Title: The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg ISBN: 0679735291 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf ISBN: 0060512180 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty by Kaz Cooke ISBN: 0393313557 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness by Kim Chernin ISBN: 0060925051 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo ISBN: 0520088832 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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