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Fasting Girls
Author | : Joan Jacobs Brumberg |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2000-10-10 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780375724480 |
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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.
Fasting Girls
Author | : William Alexander Hammond |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Anorexia in children |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HC36Z8 |
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Fasting Girls
Author | : William A. Hammond |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2020-07-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783752318883 |
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Reproduction of the original: Fasting Girls by William A. Hammond
Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology
Author | : William A. Hammond |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2019-12-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : EAN:4057664597830 |
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In 'Fasting Girls: Their Physiology and Pathology', William A. Hammond examines the claims of young girls who supposedly lived for years without any food. Published in 1879, this book is still referenced today for its skeptical analysis of the phenomenon, which Hammond attributed to fraud and hysteria. With a desire to combat popular ignorance, Hammond explores the history of abstinence from food, as well as the physiological and pathological effects of inanition.
The Welsh Fasting Girl
Author | : Varley O'Connor |
Publsiher | : Bellevue Literary Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781942658634 |
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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.
Fasting girls
Author | : William Alexander Hammond |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:24503338821 |
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Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting Girl
Author | : Robert Fowler |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2023-02-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783382108304 |
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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
Author | : Robert Fowler (M.D.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:B000667141 |
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