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  <title><![CDATA[The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;The Obsession&lt;/I&gt; is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies--a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1981</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;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 cultur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61154696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the first books I read that offered a thoughtful analysis of our culture's obsession with thinness. It was published in 1981, well before The Beauty Myth and other titles sparked a national discussion about women's body image issues. Chernin herself suffered from disordered eating, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19994101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew I should bail when I read this: &quot;This is a poignant idea. The high blood pressure and heart attacks from which our bodies suffer when we are fat may be the result of the shame we feel about our large bodies and may reflect the social condemnation to which these large bodies open us, rath...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33129963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a book published in the early 1980s, it has some devestating conclusions about eating disorders.  And one can only assume the descriptions of oppression have only worsened.<br/><br/>Provides strong ammunition that smashing annorexia and bulimia will require an entire society's reawekening abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4617674">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 13 06:08:29 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing so far! I read her book &quot;My Life as a Boy&quot; years ago and loved it. I'm more interested in the themes discussed in this book now, however.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this in the dollar bin at a used book store and it caught my eye. Interesting theories about how both women and men critic the female form and why. The last couple chapters where less interesting than the first 2/3s of the book. ]]></body>
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