| Contents: GeneralEating and Body Image
Concerns in Diverse Populations
 Children, Teens, and Young Women
 Large Women
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   General Bennett, William, and Gurin, Joel. Dieters Dilemma. NY: Basic Books, 1992. Berg, Francis. Health Risks of Weight Loss. Hettinger, ND: Healthy Weight
Journal, 1995. Bernell, Bonnie.  Bountiful
Women. Berkeley: Wildcat Canyon Press, 2000. Brumberg, Joan. Fasting Girls. NY: Penguin, 1988. ___________, The Body Project. NY: Random House, 1997. Cagnon, Denise, and Groves, Gail. Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories
by Women. NY: Harper and Row, 1987. Cooke, Kaz. Real Gorgeous. NY: Norton, 1996. Dixon, Monica. Love the Body You Were Born With. New York: Perigee, 1996. Foreyt, John, and Goodrick, Ken. Living without Dieting. Houston: Harrison,
1992. Foster, Patricia (Ed.). Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul. New
York: Anchor, 1994. Fraser, Laura. Losing It: Americas Obsession with Weight and the Industry that
Feeds on It. New York: Dutton, 1997. Friedman, Lenore & Moon, Susan (Eds.) Being Bodies. Boston: Shambala, 1997. Gaesser, Glenn. Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health. New
York: Ballantine, 1996. Gottlieb, Lori.  Stick Figure: A
Diary of My Former Self.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Hall, Lindsay. Full Lives. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze, 1995. Hillman, Carolyn. Love Your Looks. NY: Fireside, 1996. Hirschmann, Jane, and Munter, Carol. When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies. New
York: Ballantine, 1995. Hutchinson, Marcia Germaine. Transforming Body Image. Freedom, CA: Crossing
Press, 1985. _____________.  200 Ways to Love the Body
You Have. Freedom, CA: Crossing
Press, 1999. Kesten, Deborah. Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul. Berkeley, Conari, 1997. Lawrence, Marilyn (Ed.). Fed Up and Hungry: Women, Oppression and Food. New
York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1987. Nichter, Mimi.  Fat Talk: What
Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting.  Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2000. Orbach, Susie. Fat is a Feminist Issue. NY: Berkley, 1978. Ornstein, Davis, and Sobel, David. Healthy Pleasures. Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley, 1989. Phillips, Jan, Conheim, Cathy, and Forester, Christine. A
Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind.  La Jolla, CA: Breakthrough Press,
2000. Polivy, Janet, and Herman, C. Peter. Breaking the Diet Habit. NY: Basic Books,
1983. Radcliffe, Rebecca Ruggles. Dance Naked in Your Living Room: Handling Stress and
Finding Joy. * Raskin, Valerie Davis. When Words are not Enough. NY: Broadway, 1997. Real, Terrrence. I Dont Want to Talk about It. NY: Fireside, 1997. Rodin, Judith. Body Traps. NY: Morrow, 1992. Roth, Geneen. Appetites. New York: Dutton, 1996. Sault, Nicole. Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations. New Brunswisk, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1994. Schwartz, Hillel. Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies, and Fat.
NY: Free Press, 1986. Seligman, Martin. Learned Optimism. NY: Pocket Books, 1990. _____________ . What You Can Change and What You Cant. NY: Knopf Books,
1994. Siegel, Michelle, Brisman, Judith, and Weinshel, Margot. Surviving an Eating
Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends. NY: Harper and Row, 1988. Tribole, Evelyn. Intuitive Eating: A Recovery Book for the Chronic Dieter. NY:
St. Martins Press, 1995. Wann, Marilyn. Fat! So? Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1998. Waterhouse, Debra. Like Mother, Like Daughter.  Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth. NY: Morrow, 1991. Zerbe, Katherine. The Body Betrayed. Carlsbad, California: Gurze Books, 1995. Back to Top |