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The obsession

reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

By Kim Chernin

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Publish Date

1994

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Language

eng

Pages

206

Description:

The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies—a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.