In The Cult of Thinness, Sharlene Hesse-Biber builds on interviews with young women about their weight and body image and connects women's eating patterns to images in popular culture. Linking eating disorders to contemporary social, cultural, and economic pressures on women to be thin, Hesse-Biber argues that diet and workout industries profit from this cult of thinness and help to perpetuate it.
- ISBN10 0195117913
- ISBN13 9780195117912
- Publish Date 20 November 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 April 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English