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Harriet Brown

Body of Truth

How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight -- and What We Can Do about It

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Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, fat has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you fat. How did we get to this place where the worst insult you can hurl at someone is fat? Where women and girls (and increasingly men and boys) will diet, purge, overeat, undereat, and berate themselves and others, all in the name of being thin?As a science journalist, Harriet Brown has explored this collective longing and fixation from an objecti… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7382-1770-3
  • EAN: 9780738217703
  • Produktnummer: 22911011
  • Verlag: Hachette Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'046 KB

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Harriet Brown is the author of Body of Truth and Brave Girl Eating. She has edited two anthologies and has written for the New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, Psychology Today, Prevention, and many other publications. She is an associate professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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