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Provides strong ammunition that smashing annorexia and bulimia will require an entire society's reawekening about gender power and cultural attitudes. Support groups and therapy offer important treatment to the disease, but it needs to be cured.

Witch burning, Victorian purity, sexual slavery, genital mutilation, domestic violence, foot binding. The struggle to be thin is the latest "dirty little secret" of modern culture.]]>