Harriet Brown
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English
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Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" has become a four-letter word. How did we get to this place where the worst insult you can hurl at someone is "fat"? Where women and girls (and increasingly men and boys) will diet, purge, overeat, under eat, and berate themselves and others, all in the name of being thin? As a science journalist, Harriet...
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English
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In Brave Girl Eating, the chronicle of a family's struggle with anorexia nervosa, journalist, professor, and author Harriet Brown recounts in mesmerizing and horrifying detail her daughter Kitty's journey from near-starvation to renewed health. Brave Girl Eating is an intimate, shocking, compelling, and ultimately uplifting look at the ravages of a mental illness that affects more than 18 million Americans.
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Offers practical advice for babysitters, covering such basic topics as feeding, crying, keeping children amused, first aid, and bedtime.
"Girls can learn how to be the best babysitter on the block! Inside this guide are professional tips and tricks, quizzes, secrets from real sitters, and safety how-to information. She'll learn how to care for kids and become a wiz at changing a baby's diaper properly, calming a crying child when her parents leave,...
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Publisher
Lifelong Books/Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Over the last 25 years, our longing for thinness has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. You can't be a woman or girl (or, increasingly, a man or boy) in America today and not grapple with the size and shape of your body, your daughter's body, other women's bodies. Even the most confident people have to find a way through a daily gauntlet of voices and images talking, admonishing, warning us about what size we...