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Author Spitzack, Carole

Title Confessing excess : women and the politics of body reduction / Carole Spitzack
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (x, 200 pages)
Series SUNY series in gender and society
SUNY series in gender and society.
Contents Curative voices: anti-diets and experts -- the aesthetics of women's health: "watching yourself until you're sixty-five" -- speaking transgressions: "making a believer of me" -- family relationships: "mother criticizes, father compliments" -- women's friendships: "going down to the depths of you" -- romantic relationships: "getting him to see me" -- seeing the mythology of resolution: "i could write a book about this" -- political solutions: "wait a minute, this is crazy."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index
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Subject Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects
Weight loss -- Social aspects
Body image -- Social aspects
Women -- Psychology.
Conformity.
Weight loss.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Leanness -- Social aspects
Body image in women.
Body Image
Social Conformity
Weight Loss
Women -- psychology
Women's Health
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Women -- Health and hygiene
Weight loss
Leanness -- Social aspects
Conformity
Body image in women
Body image -- Social aspects
Weight loss -- Social aspects
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects
Women -- Psychology
Gesundheit
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Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585089981
9780585089980