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Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.

University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1992.

Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to Toni Morrison, in American, British, and European texts.

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Entry Number#11855
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Publication place: University Park, PA