Fat Talk
Subtitle: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780674002296
Subjects: Anthropology; Diets & dieting; Popular psychology; Sociology; Nutrition; Cognition In Children; Eating Disorders; Women's Studies - General; Reducing diets; Psychology; USA; Obesity in adolescence; Children's Studies; Life Stages - Adolescence; Psychology & Psychiatry / Adolescent Psychology; Teenage girls; Developmental - Adolescent; Psychopathology - Eating Disorders; Body image in adolescence
Description: "Anthropologist Mimi Nichter spent three years interviewing middle school and high school girls - lower-middle to middle class, white, black, and Latina - about their feelings concerning appearance, their eating habits, and dieting. In Fat Talk, she tells us what the girls told her, and explores the influence of peers, family, and the media on girls' sense of self. Letting girls speak for themselves, she gives us the human side of survey statistics.".

"Fat Talk takes the reader into the lives of girls as daughters, providing insights into how parents talk to their teenagers about their changing bodies. Moving beyond negative stereotype of mother-daughter relationships, Nichter examines the issues and struggles that mothers face in bringing up their daughters, particularly in relation to body image, and considers how they can help their daughters move beyond rigid and stereotyped images of ideal beauty."--BOOK JACKET.