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 en
Kim Chernin's mother was a leftist firebrand, an American Marxist at mid-century, when it was dangerous to be one. Her father, a quiet man, was no less radical. Why then, decades later, does their da
Answers the need for help among the five million American women who suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phylli
Presenting a new model of female adult development, a renowned psychoanalyst draws on her own clinical practice to help women break a pattern of endless cycles of blame and forgiveness toward their mo
The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments for the creation of the state of Israel. In this thoughtfu
A memoir follows a woman trying to figure out what love is, struggling to understand what happens between desire and the determination to possess the object of that desire, and discovering what it is
