The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness

The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies--a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.

Author: Kim Chernin
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/13/1994
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780060925055

About the Author
Chernin, Kim: - Kim Chernin is a guest instructor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, where she teaches a course in psychoanalytic models with Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. She is the author of two books about eros and memory, Crossing the Border&nbsp and Sex and other Sacred Games&nbsp (with Renee Stendhal); a trilogy of books on hunger, The Obsession, The Hungry Self, &nbsp and Reinventing Eve;&nbsp a novel, The Flame Bearers;&nbsp a memoir, In My Mother's House;&nbsp a collection of poetry, The Hunger Song;&nbsp a book about psychoanalysis, A Different Kind of Listening;&nbsp and a spiritual memoir, In My Father's Garden.&nbsp She has studed music on her own since the age of seven, when she first began to play the piano.