The Good Body: Asceticism in Contemporary Culture

Book Overview

What are the reasons for the current epidemic of eating disorders, the increasing obsession with exercise, diet, and cosmetic surgery, the constant exhortations to look and feel good? This engrossing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300056281
• ISBN13: 9780300056280
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"