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Author
Orbach, Susie, 1946-
Title
Bodies / Susie Orbach.
Imprint
New York : Picador, c2009.
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362.1968 ORB
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Edition
1st Picador ed.
Description
viii, 216 p. ; 18 cm.
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Big ideas/small books
Big ideas/small books.
Note
"Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books."--T.p. verso.
"A Picador paperback original." -- Cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-203) and index.
Contents
Bodies in our time -- Shaping the body -- Speaking bodies -- Bodies real and not so real -- And so to sex -- What are bodies for?
Summary
Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies, and points the way toward a process of healing.
Subject
Body dysmorphic disorder.
Body image.
Human body in mass media.
ISBN
9780312427207 (pbk.)
0312427204 (pbk.)
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