Not all Black girls know how to eat : a story of bulimia /

Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. Moving coast to coast, she tries to escape her self-hatred and obsession by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Covington Armstrong, Stephanie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, 2009.
Temas:
Covington Armstrong, Stephanie > Health.
Covington Armstrong, Stephanie > Mental health.
Covington Armstrong, Stephanie > Childhood and youth.
Covington Armstrong, Stephanie.
Bulimia > United States > Case studies.
Bulimia > Patients > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American women > Mental health > Case studies.
African American families > New York (State) > New York.
Boulimie > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Boulimiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
Noires américaines > Biographies.
Noires américaines > Santé mentale > Études de cas.
Familles noires américaines > New York (État) > New York.
SELF-HELP > Eating Disorders.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Eating Disorders.
Childhood and youth of a person.
African American families.
African American women.
African American women > Mental health.
Bulimia.
Bulimia > Patients.
Health.
Mental health.
Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > Biography.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Bedford-Stuyvesant.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A hungry childhood
  • Returning home
  • Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
  • Monster in the family
  • Father's day
  • Missing mommy
  • A communist among us
  • The trouble with puberty
  • Tragedies
  • On my own
  • Losing it
  • Hollywood, California
  • What goes down must come up
  • Manorexic
  • New York
  • Location, location, location
  • Dating for doughnuts
  • Resistance is futile
  • Giving up the fight
  • The inward journey
  • On solid ground.

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