Culture and Weight Consciousness

By Mervat Nasser

Book Overview

Mervat Nasser looks at the recent emergence of eating disorders in non-Western cultures and links it to the same socio-cultural model of causation as found in the Western world. This leads her to examine the limitations of the concept of culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415161533
• ISBN13: 9780415161534
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"