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Kim Chernin

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http://kimchernin.com/

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Women & Gender Studies, Health, Mind & Body

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Kim Chernin is a free-lance editor, a writing consultant, and an instructor in creative writing at the University of California and has a private practice in Berkeley, California, as a consultant to women with eating disorders.

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Books by Kim Chernin

Average rating: 3.70 · 353 ratings · 37 reviews · 23 distinct works

	In My Mother's House 3.85 avg rating — 72 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity 3.61 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness 3.71 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	My Life as a Boy: A Woman's Story 3.57 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother by Kim Chernin, Francesca Belanger (Designed by) 3.14 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	In My Father's Garden: A Daughter's Search for a Spiritual Life 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Sex and Other Sacred Games by Kim Chernin, Renate Stendhal, Kim Cherin 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	A Different Kind Of Listening: My Psychoanalysis And Its Shadow 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Woman's Path: Best Women's Spiritual Travel Writing 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2000	My rating:

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“What unites the women who seek to reduce their weight is the fact that they look for an answer to life's problems in the control of their bodies and appetites. A woman who walks through the doors of a weight watching organization and enters the women's reduction movement has allowed her culture to persuade her that significant relief from personal and cultural dilemma is to be found in the reduction of her body, thus, her decision, although she may not be aware of it, enters the domain of the body politik and becomes symbolically a political act." p.101”
― Kim Chernin, The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness

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