Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia and Bulimia
The authors' decade-and-a-half collaboration with 'insiders' has yielded fresh answers to these life and death questions: How does a/b seduce and terrorize girls and women? Why is a/b successful in encouraging girls and women to unwittingly embrace their would-be murderer? How can such a murderer be exposed and thwarted? This book details a unique way of thinking and speaking about anorexia/bulimia. By having conversations with insiders in which the problem is viewed as an external influence...
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This important book immediately draws the reader into the world of those struggling with anorexia/bulimia (a/b), whose stories, poems, and first-person accounts expose the 'voice' of these deadly problems.
1The seductive voice of anorexia/bulimia192From captivated to captive : anorexia/bulimia as prison and jailer293First it saves your life, then it kills you : Emily's story434Becoming an angel : Maggie's story565The Devil's smile : Jennifer's story596Saving a life : anorexia's story about Kristen667Manners of speaking758Breaking the spell of anorexia/bulimia909Ten voices against one : Tracy's story10610I wanna be good : a conversation with Margaret11711Unmasking and defying anorexia/bulimia13512Constructing anti-anorexic/bulimic lifestyles16313Comebacks and retreats17714Living life from the inside out : a conversation with Amy19215Anorexia's soldiers : another conversation with Margaret21316Parents as anti-anorexic/bulimic allies23717Lighting a torch in the great darkness of anorexia : Ann and Richard's story25218Toward spirit-nourishing approaches27419Conclusion291
