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Paperback Body Story Book

ISBN: 0804010641

ISBN13: 9780804010641

Body Story

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Something other than a memoir of a life well lived, Body Story conveys Julia K. De Pree's troubling journey from adolescence to adulthood and from anorexia to health.

For De Pree, between being a girl and being a woman, there was starvation. Body Story is her intimate account of girlhood, virginity, anorexia, and motherhood. De Pree's prose is spare and unguarded, revealing in vivid flashbacks and poignant vignettes...

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This book is meaningful and insightful for all women

I find it odd that nobody has reviewed this book yet. I think it is extremely creative and beautiful. The chapters are labeled poetically; Virgin Body, Girl Body, Starving Body, Wedding Body, Giving Birth, and Blind Spot are most of them. These chapters are not only validating and insightful to the troubles of eating disordered women but also transcend the eating disordered "barrier" by relating fully to all women. At the end of the book the author, a Professor of French at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, provides study questions and discussion topics for group reading making the book ideal for sharing and book clubs. This book is significant and a great work by a strong and very real woman. Do give it a read. You will like it!
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