An anthropological view of western women's prodigious fasting: A review essay
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Food and Foodways
- Vol. 3 (4) , 357-375
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.1989.9961961
Abstract
Rudolph M. Bell (1985). Holy Anorexia. Epilogue by William N. Davis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Joan Jacobs Brumberg (1988). Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Caroline Walker Bynum (1987). Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press.Keywords
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