Hunger Strike: An Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for Our Age
- ISBN-10
- 0393022781
- ISBN-13
- 9780393022780
- Series
- Hunger Strike
- Category
- Anorexia nervosa
- Pages
- 201
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Author
- Susie Orbach
Description
This examination of the anorectic's struggle examines the social forces and psychological conflicts that set so many women on this painful course
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