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1) Thin girls
Author
Language
English
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Description
A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and queerness as well as toxic diet culture and the power of sisterhood, love, and lifelong friendships.--Publisher's description.
Rose and Lily Winters are twins. They feel each other's emotions, taste what the other is feeling, but their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts consuming everything Rose won't...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
vii, 262 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bulik digs deep into the origins of women's problems with body image, guiding her readers in the challenging task of disentangling self-esteem from body esteem, and taking charge of the insidious negative self-talk.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Entertainment journalist and former senior editor at NYLON Sesali Bowen's NOTES FROM A TRAP FEMINIST: a text for the hot girl era, combining rule-breaking feminist theory, a gendered analysis of contemporary hip-hop, and the author's humorous personal narrative"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of Speak shares her transformative personal journey, during which she learned lessons about loss, love, body image, and self-confidence, offering an accessible blueprint for anyone looking to make a positive in their lives.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Big Girl chronicles Kelsey's journey into self-loathing and disordered eating-and out of it. This is a memoir for anyone who's dealt with a distorted body image, food issues, or a dysfunctional family. It's for the late-bloomers and the not-yet-bloomed. It's for everyone who's tried and failed and felt like a big, fat loser. So, basically, everyone."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women. Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to see if the impossibility of her own full recovery from an eating disorder was all in her head. Interviewing women across...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 202 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"[E]xplores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women's feelings about their bodies, but also their confidence, choices, and relationships."--From dust jacket flap.
12) Supper club
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?" --
Almost thirty, Roberta is stuck in a mindless job and reluctant to pursue her passion for food. When she meets Stevie, a spirited and effervescent artist, their intense friendship sparks...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture's absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
241 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The funny, exuberant, inspiring antidote to body shame--a full-color graphic memoir celebrating the imperfections of the author's female body in all its glory. Too tall. Too short. Too fat. Too thin. The message is everywhere--we need to pluck, wax, shrink, and hide ourselves, to not take up space, emotionally or literally; women are never "just right." Well, Ariella Elovic, feminist and illustrator extraordinaire, has had enough. In her full-color...