Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Good Girls Don't Eat Dessert; Chapter 2: The Love Affair with Food; Cathy: I Just Can't Control My Eating -- Food: The Consuming Passion; The Sexualization of Food: The Eating Orgy; Jane: The Very Good Girl; Fran: The Big Bad Girl; Staggering Statistics; Chapter 3: Eat and Be Thin; Diet Madness; Fat Farms and Other Fat Fighters; The Quest for the Perfect Body; Extreme Measures; The Double Message; An Age-Old Dilemma; Chapter 4: To Do It or Not To Do It; Sex Is Only for Mothers; Don't Touch Down There
Sexual IgnoranceFaking Orgasms; The Sweet Mystery of Love; Keeping the Hymen Intact at all Costs; Petting: The Agony and the Ecstasy; Sex Is Always on My Mind; Shared Secrets; Good Girls Don't Go All the Way -- Anything for Love; Chapter 5: The Sexual Revolution; It's O.K. to Touch Down There -- Debunking Sexual Myths; Liberating Orgasm; The Sexual Liberty Bell Is Ringing; Casual Sex and One Night Stands; Chapter 6: Sex: More Trouble Than It's Worth; The Number One Complaint: Lack of Sexual Desire; Sex: One More Demand; The Single Woman: Where Do I Fit Sex into My Life?
A Good Man Is Hard to FindThe Mechanization of Romance; Is It Worth Dying For?; Chapter 7: The Flight from Feeling and the Lack of Intimacy; Chapter 8: When Eating Was Okay; The Way to a Man's Heart; The Name of the Game: A Perfect Size Twelve; From Mammary Goddesses to Svelte Superwomen; Chapter 9: Consuming Passions; Compulsive Cravings; Getting in the Mood; The Double Standard; The ""Food"" Response Cycle; Excesses of the Flesh; Controlling the Appetites; Sexual Anorexia; It's Dangerous to Tamper with Normal Appetites; Chapter 10: Food, Sex, Love and Power; Food Is My Lover; Sex and Love
Narcissism and the Quest for the Perfect BodyLean and Mean -- Women, Weight and Power; The Need to Belong; Unhealthy Dependency; What Are Little Girls Made Of?; She's So Pretty ... -- Still Trying To Be Good Girls; Chapter 11: Breaking Free; Challenging the Rules: Why Should My Happiness Depend on a Number on the Scale?; Exploding the Myth: Does Thinness Bring Eternal Love and Happiness?; Examining the Costs: Is It Worth Dying For?; Accepting the Body as It Is; Thinking Healthy Instead of Thin; Becoming Persons Instead of Products; Nourishing the Self
Developing a ""Healthy Selfishness""Chapter 12: Toward a New Consciousness; Fat Is Just a Size; Fighting Fat Discrimination; Creating New Resources for Fat Women; Creating New Images, New Role Models and a New Vocabulary; Onward to the 1990s; References; Index
Summary
Compares the contemporary conflict--to eat or not to eat--with the major conflict for women thirty years ago--to do "it" or not to do "it."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index
