Confessing excess : women and the politics of body reduction / Carole Spitzack.
1990
RA778 .S734 1990 (Mapit)
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Title
Confessing excess : women and the politics of body reduction / Carole Spitzack.
Author
Spitzack, Carole.
ISBN
0791402711
9780791402719
079140272X (pbk.)
9780791402726 (pbk.)
9780791402719
079140272X (pbk.)
9780791402726 (pbk.)
Imprint
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1990.
Language
English
Description
x, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
RA778 .S734 1990
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
Series
SUNY series in gender and society.
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Table of Contents
Curative voices: anti-diets and experts
the aesthetics of women's health: "watching yourself until you're sixty-five"
speaking transgressions: "making a believer of me"
family relationships: "mother criticizes, father compliments"
women's friendships: "going down to the depths of you"
romantic relationships: "getting him to see me"
seeing the mythology of resolution: "i could write a book about this"
political solutions: "wait a minute, this is crazy."
the aesthetics of women's health: "watching yourself until you're sixty-five"
speaking transgressions: "making a believer of me"
family relationships: "mother criticizes, father compliments"
women's friendships: "going down to the depths of you"
romantic relationships: "getting him to see me"
seeing the mythology of resolution: "i could write a book about this"
political solutions: "wait a minute, this is crazy."