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Women today are caught up in a body-image crisis, afraid they’ll gain weight, afraid they won’t lose down to their goal, afraid to fully nourish themselves. They feel oversized in one part or another and wish they were thinner. The new book “Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in a Weight-Obsessed World,” by Frances M. Berg, probes why this is happening at a time when women have more freedom than ever before. What are the powerful forces acting on women that make them feel defective if not thin? How did it happen that a woman’s value now is being judged by her degree of slimness, not her talent, insight or generosity? “Women Afraid to Eat” challenges the social and medical pressures to be thin. It shows in startling detail what the current warped norm for body shape, unachievable by most, is doing to women, how it harms them physically, emotionally and socially. It takes an authoritative look at the many issues that negatively affect eating and weight… More >>
Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking Free in Today’s Weight-Obsessed World