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ISBN-10: 0307278344
ISBN-13: 9780307278340
Edition: N/A
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As a culture, we are fascinated, or perhaps morbidly transfixed, by the spectacle of anorexia. But even after twenty-five years of pop psychology, TV movies, celebrity magazines, and feminist tracts, how much do we really understand it? Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their experiences from the distance of recovery. Their honesty illuminates as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world. The authors discuss factors including genetics, depression, sexuality, religion, athletics, fashion, family, and the drive to excel. In her introduction, Kate Taylor tells her own story and offers a new theory about the role anorexia plays in a young person's search for… direction: that for adolescents caught between the need to be accepted and the desire to stand out, self-starvation offers a quick-and-dirty means of having it both ways. Powerful and immensely informative, this collection is essential reading for parents, teachers, teenagers, and anyone who wants to understand what goes through the mind of someone struggling with an eating disorder. With essays by Priscilla Becker, Francesca Lia Block, Maya Browne, Jennifer Egan, Amanda Fortini, Louise Gluck, Latria Graham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Trisha Gura, Sarah Haight, Lisa Halliday, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Maura Kelly, Ilana Kurshan, Joyce Maynard, John Nolan, Rudy Ruiz, and Chiara Scully.