Margo Maine: 3 books
Body Wars
Making Peace with Women's Bodies (An Activist's Guide)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Margo Maine spares no target in this straightforward and entertaining expose. Loaded with facts and inspirational quotes, this is an activist's guide for parents, educators, therapists, patients, former patients, or anyone who wants to fight against the forces that prevent women from being comfortable...
Pursuing Perfection
Eating Disorders, Body Myths, and Women at Midlife and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In Pursuing Perfection, authors Margo Maine and Joe Kelly explore the emotional, social and cultural factors behind the ongoing epidemic of disordered eating and body image despair in adult women at midlife and beyond. Written from a biopsychosocial and feminist perspective, Pursuing Perfection describes...
Father Hunger
Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Father Hunger" is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were physically or emotionally absent-a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating patterns. The term, which is now part of the psychology lexicon, originated with the first...