Takes on the fat phobia that permeates so much of the research about obesity and health. Here's the proof that people can be overweight and still be fit and healthy.

Loaded with particular �body wars� in each chapter: dieting consciousness, weight prejudice, concepts of beauty and ageism...

Practical solutions to help dads and daughters understand and improve their relationships.

Practical solutions for men who are suffering from anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, excessive exercise, steroid abuse...

Kilbourne makes obvious how advertisers encourage us to develop a relationship with "things" and be subsequently tied to them forever.

This intelligent, political, feminist treatise explores the all-pervasive prejudice against fat women.

In THE BODY MYTH Margo Maine provides healing insights and proven techniques for reclaiming your life.

Historical perspectives on body image, growing up female, and the origin of anorexia nervosa.

Chermin looks at the association between self-identity and eating disorders, connecting the often troubled relationship between mothers and daughters.

Martin offers a long overdue critique of our culture's unhealthy obsession with physical appearance, and what it's doing to our kids...