The Hungry Self :The Hungry Self :
Women, Eating, and Identity
by Kim Chernin
Paperback - 214 pages (May
1994)
Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0060925043
Synopsis
Some five million American women suffer from eating disorders ranging
from compulsive dieting to compulsive eating, anorexia, and bulimia. THE
HUNGRY SELF explores the often troubled relationship between mothers and
daughters and how daughters of all ages and backgrounds often flee the struggle
for identity and self-development into an obsession with food.
From the Publisher
Answers the need for help among the five million American women who
suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation
on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phyllis Chesler
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