Chermin looks at the association between self-identity and eating disorders, connecting the often troubled relationship between mothers and daughters.

Challenges the notion that eating disorders occur only among white, well-to-to, heterosexual women. It dispels popular stereotypes of anorexia and bulimia as symptoms of vanity...

Looking Queer explores body issues based on gender, race, class, age, and disability to provide scholars, body image activists, and health care professionals with information about queer experiences and identity...

According to this manifesto, eating disorders in the United States are an epidemic of greater numbers and more dire outcomes than is commonly assumed...

This bestseller explains why more American girls have been falling prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before.

Drawing on historical sources, Brumberg chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why girls today are in a crisis.

“Bad body thoughts” are clues to our emotional lives. Learn how to accept yourself—your body as well as your feelings—unconditionally.

Examines the powerful social and medical pressures to be thin, the devastating effect on women, and calls for a health at every size revolution.

As the primary male role model in a girl's life, fathers influence their daughters in profound ways, from how they see themselves...

What “hidden persuaders” do restaurants and supermarkets use to get us to overeat or overspend? How does music or the color of the room influence how much-and how fast-we get through our meals?