Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity
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Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity
by Authors:
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Released: October, 1997
ISBN: 0195117913
Paperback
Sales Rank: 52,675
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Customer Review #1:
women responsible for grrrl power
Once you get past the rhetoric of victimization from the late 80s/early 90s feminist school, the book offers much information and insight from various studies on how an idea has been sold to us by men...and women.
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Customer Review #2:
 wonderfully informative
Dr. Hesse-Biber was my professor for a course I took, and we read this book for the class. I found the book to be personal, yet objective, and very informative. Hesse-Biber clearly outlines the causes of the cult of thinness and does so in an organized manner. I recommend this book to ANY woman/mother/sister/daughter, etc....I also highly recommend MEN to read this book, and for everyone to be aware that the cult of thinness is not just a womans issue.
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Customer Review #3:
Tells It Like It Is
Whats most interesting about this book is that its written not by a medical professional or feminist or person recovering from an eating disorder with the usual agendas to pursue, but by a social scientist who maintains a surprisingly objective view of the phenomenon she analyzes. As mentioned below, the population she surveys is predominantly white and advantaged, but as she herself notes, this is verifiably the population involved in "the cult of thinness." What I find most interesting is that rather than advocate a fight-the-system approach as writers like Mary Phifer and Terry Poulton do in their books on the same subject, the author simply notes that, as long as sacrificing health and emotional well-being for staying thin really does provide these women with the rewards they seek (the choicest mates, more opportunities for advancement in business, a feeling of self-worth and accomplishment), there is in truth not a lot of incentive for these women to change their disordered behavior.
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