Fasting Girls

Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780375724480

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Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Pdf

An acclaimed classic from the award-winning author of The Body Project presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century, providing compassion to victims and their families. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, "wonders of science" whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and air, silent screen stars whose strict "slimming" regimens inspired a generation. Here, too, is a fascinating look at how the cultural ramifications of the Industrial Revolution produced a disorder that continues to render privileged young women helpless. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, Fasting Girls offers real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease.

Author : Michelle Stacey
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110431223

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The Fasting Girl by Michelle Stacey Pdf

"Why? Because Fancher, experiencing chronic paralysis, trances, and seizures, was also reportedly able to "live on air." For more than a decade, it was widely reputed, she ate almost nothing. Her case became a lightning rod for physicians and theologians who locked horns over her controversial ability, inspiring a frenzy of tabloid hype and scientific debate." "The Fancher case has remained an unsolved mystery ever since. How, and how much, did she eat? Was Mollie a media-hungry fraud, playing on a public desire for miracles, or simply hysterical, emotionally disturbed, delusional? Was she history's first victim of anorexia nervosa, or a sufferer of anorexia mirabilis, the medieval phenomenon of "fasting saints"? Or was she merely a product of her time and place - an anxious crossroads of nineteenth-century nervousness and twentieth-century neurosis, heightened by rapid industrial progress and an intensified pace of life?"--BOOK JACKET.

Author : William Alexander Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Anorexia in children
ISBN : HARVARD:HC36Z8

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Fasting Girls by William Alexander Hammond Pdf

Author : William A. Hammond
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752318883

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Fasting Girls by William A. Hammond Pdf

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Author : Varley O'Connor
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942658634

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The Welsh Fasting Girl by Varley O'Connor Pdf

Praise for the Previous Novels of Varley O’Connor “Thoroughly researched and lively.” —Vogue “Elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.” —Michael Chabon “Honesty and compassion inform every page, and there are passages so musical and full of grace they read like hymns. Reading groups should rejoice.” —Sigrid Nunez “[O’Connor] captures the dangerous intersection between private life and the forces of history . . . and gives the reader that rare pleasure of inhabiting another family life that feels at once entirely familiar and new.” —Susan Richards Shreve Twelve-year-old Sarah Jacob was the most famous of the Victorian fasting girls, who claimed to miraculously survive without food, serving as flashpoints between struggling religious, scientific, and political factions. In this novel based on Sarah’s life and premature death from what may be the first documented case of anorexia, an American journalist, recovering from her husband’s death in the Civil War, leaves her home and children behind to travel to Wales, where she investigates Sarah’s bizarre case by becoming the young girl’s friend and confidante. Unable to prevent the girl’s tragic decline while doctors, nurses, and a local priest keep watch, she documents the curious family dynamic, the trial that convicted Sarah’s parents, and an era’s hysterical need to both believe and destroy Sarah’s seemingly miraculous power. Intense, dark, and utterly compelling, The Welsh Fasting Girl delves into the complexities of a true story to understand how a culture’s anxieties led to the murder of a child. Varley O’Connor is the author of five novels, including The Welsh Fasting Girl, The Master’s Muse, and The Cure. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Author : William Alexander Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503338821

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Fasting girls by William Alexander Hammond Pdf

Author : Robert Fowler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382108304

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Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl by Robert Fowler Pdf

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Robert Fowler (M.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000667141

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A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-girl (Sarah Jacob), with Comments Thereon; and Observations on Death from Starvation by Robert Fowler (M.D.) Pdf

Author : Walter Vandereycken,Ron Van Deth
Publisher : Athlone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0485241005

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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls by Walter Vandereycken,Ron Van Deth Pdf

Down the centuries self-starvation has taken many morbid guises. This story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations in the course of which a medical curiosity has been transformed into a modern disease.

Author : Anna Richenda
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440132421

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The Saint and the Fasting Girl by Anna Richenda Pdf

Link to Author Video and Website: http://www.annarichenda.com Sister Georgia lives at the center of a bustling Yorkshire nunnery at the eve of the English Reformation. Yet she is no ordinary nun. Georgia and her sisters follow the ways of the legendary Saint Isela, recording her signs and miracles and preparing for her return. But the archbishop of London, Philip SeVerde, a man rising in Henry VIIIs royal court, cannot bear this wild nunnery of the north. Driven by greed and a lust for power, SeVerde demands that the nuns submit to his control and strict monastic rule. Georgia is persecuted and tortured, yet she refuses to back down. Drawing strength and visions from an ancient relic, Georgia must ensure that her mystical group of nuns survive the meddling of the corrupt archbishop. She must undergo an epic journey and endure, lifetime after lifetime, until the promise of Saint Isela can be fulfilled. It is the story of The Saint and the Fasting Girl.

Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307755742

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The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Pdf

The award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project. "Fascinating ... riveting ... Women and girls should read this fine book together." —The New York Times Book Review A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with character to our modern focus on outward appearance—in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project.

Author : Jasai Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 097662771X

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The New FastGirls by Jasai Madden Pdf

Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046429547

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Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Pdf

Anorexia nervosa may affect as many as five to ten percent of adolescent girls in the United States, and on some college campuses, the estimate is as high as twenty percent. Despite its recent "popularity", however, the disease remains puzzling in its causes and stubbornly resistant to a cure. For, as Fasting Girls demonstrates, anorexia nervosa existed long before our current preoccupation with lean bodies. This landmark, award-winning work offers a solution to the mystery of anorexia nervosa, exploring its historical roots from the fasting saints of the Middle Ages and the curious "fasting girls" of the Victorian era to the weight-obsessed celebrities of our own time. By linking broad cultural forces to individual biomedical and psychological factors, Fasting Girls shows how a society that believes a woman "can never be too rich or too thin" actually recruits certain adolescents to anorexia -- those who regard a thin body as a state of perfection. Combined with other social stresses, such an attitude puts an increasing number of contemporary young women at risk. Highly readable and authoritative, Fasting Girls takes the reader into the private world of sufferers in the past, and also shows today's health professionals and parents why America's young women are so vulnerable to anorexia, and what treatments have proven effective in combating this frequently misunderstood, often deadly, disorder.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520908789

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Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum Pdf

In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443450041

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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue Pdf

Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix. SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Heartbreaking and transcendent.” —The New York Times From the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Room and the bestselling novel Haven In 1850s Ireland a village is baffled by young Anna O’Donnell’s fast. The girl appears to be thriving after months without food, and the story of this “wonder” has reached fever pitch. Tourists flock to the O’Donnell family’s cabin, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensational story. Enter Lib, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale, who is hired to keep watch over Anna for two weeks to determine whether or not the girl is a fraud. As Anna deteriorates, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child, but for getting to the root of why the girl may actually be the victim of murder in slow motion. Written with all the spare and propulsive tension that made Room a bestseller, The Wonder is a tale of two strangers who will transform each other’s lives, a powerful psychological thriller and a story of love pitted against evil in its many masks. “Beautifully moody with the taut pace of a thriller, The Wonder grapples with the potency of love, both human and divine.” —Chatelaine