What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin …
Want to Read $ 11.99"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I was actually going home and doing it. I didn't know at the time that many of them were, too."-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I was actually going home and doing it. I didn't know at the time that many of them were, too."-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
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2. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
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3. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
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4. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
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Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
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5. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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By: Pooja Lakshmin
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7. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
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4.30
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10. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
4.31
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11. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
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20. Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
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21. Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead
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