Am I Thin Enough Yet?; Author: Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Sociology, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA); Hardback; Book

Author: Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Sociology, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA)
Hardback; Book; Halftones, Bibliography
200 pages
Published: June 1996
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195082419
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Packed with first-hand, intimate portraits of young women from a wide variety of backgrounds, and drawing on historical accounts and current material culled from both popular and scholarly sources, Am I Thin Enough Yet? brings into sharp focus the multitude of societal and psychological forces that compel American women to pursue the ideal of thinness at any cost. 16 illustrations.Centred around a number of interviews with young women concerning their weight and body image, this study connects women's eating patterns to images in popular culture and links eating disorders to contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures on women to be thin.