num_pages: 138
description: Starving Women by Angelyn Spignesi is an absolutely essential book. It explores anorexia through the imagery, language, and metaphor spontaneously produced by those who suffer the affliction. Informed throughout by a compassionate scholarship and a deep insight, Starving Women allows a reader to enter the symbolic dimension of this perplexing affliction and to understand its hidden meanings and intentions. The author's profound respect for the distinctive nature of the female psyche is evident on every page. I cannot recommend this book too highly-- it is a major contribution to our understanding of what it means to be a woman. -Kim Chernin
language: English
title: Starving Women: A Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa
titlecomplete: Starving Women: A Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa
ratings_count: 8
publisher: UNKNO