The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women's Obsession with Food and Weight
Anthropologist (PhD Stanford) and writer (Geisha, Tales of Murasaki) best known for having become the the only westerner ever to become a geisha. Her story was dramatized on US network TV. In 2004 served as geisha consultant to film of Arthur Golden's novel, Memoirs of a Geisha.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.