LEADER 07001nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910955105403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780674041547 010 $a0674041542 024 7 $a10.1515/9780674041547 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786740 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050823 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153658 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147440 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153658 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10393327 035 $a(PQKB)10878283 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300344 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315849 035 $a(OCoLC)923110637 035 $a(DE-B1597)574304 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674041547 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300344 035 $a(OCoLC)1262308416 035 $a(Perlego)1148453 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786740 100 $a19991122d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFat talk $ewhat girls and their parents say about dieting /$fMimi Nichter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a9780674002296 311 0 $a0674002296 311 0 $a9780674006812 311 0 $a067400681X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-251) and index. 327 $aPreface Introduction: Barbie and Beyond 1. In the Presence of the Perfect Girl 2. Fat Talk 3. Are Girls Really Dieting? 4. Who Will I Look Like? 5. Mothers, Daughters, and Dieting 6. Looking Good Among African-American Girls 7. What We Can Do Appendix A: Research Strategies Appendix B: Tables Notes Acknowledgments Index 330 $aSurveys show that half of American teen-aged girls are dieting and many are at risk from eating disorders. This text examines differences between the black and white subjects interviewed and the issues that mothers face in raising healthy daughters. 330 $bThey hate their thighs. They binge and purge. They want a perfect body. These are the American girls we've heard about in report after report--surveys telling us that half of all teen-aged girls are dieting at any given time, and suggesting that many of them are "at risk" for eating disorders. But what do these statistics really mean? How do girls think about their bodies, their appearance, their culture? In Fat Talk the girls answer for themselves. The result of a study that followed hundreds of teen-aged girls for three years, this book brings to light the subtleties, the complexities, and the realities of girls' ideas about their shapes, their eating habits, and their physical ideals. Anthropologist Mimi Nichter uses an engaging narrative style to explore the influence of peers, family, and media on girls' sense of self. In extensive excerpts from interviews, we hear how these girls differ from those we encounter in surveys. In particular, despite widespread dissatisfaction with one aspect or another of their bodies, the girls did not diet so much as talk about dieting. "Fat talk," Nichter wryly argues, is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of establishing solidarity. Fat Talk reveals some differences between the black and white subjects Nichter interviewed--not just in matters of weight and appearance, but also in the mother-daughter relationship that seemed to powerfully influence a girl's self-image. Moving beyond the stereotypes of such relationships, Nichter examines the issues and struggles that mothers face in bringing up healthy daughters today--and suggests how we might help girls move beyond punishing images of ideal beauty. Teen-aged girls hate their bodies and diet obsessively, or so we hear. News stories and reports of survey research often claim that as many as three girls in five are on a diet at any given time, and they grimly suggest that many are "at risk" for eating disorders. But how much can we believe these frightening stories? What do teenagers mean when they say they are dieting? Anthropologist Mimi Nichter spent three years interviewing middle school and high school girls--lower-middle to middle class, white, black, and Latina--about their feelings concerning appearance, their eating habits, and dieting. In Fat Talk , she tells us what the girls told her, and explores the influence of peers, family, and the media on girls' sense of self. Letting girls speak for themselves, she gives us the human side of survey statistics. Most of the white girls in her study disliked something about their bodies and knew all too well that they did not look like the envied, hated "perfect girl' But they did not diet so much as talk about dieting. Nichter wryly argues-in fact some of the girls as much as tell her-that "fat talk" is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of being, or creating solidarity. It allows the girls to show that they are concerned about their weight, but it lessens the urgency to do anything about it, other than diet from breakfast to lunch. Nichter concludes that if anything, girls are watching their weight and what they eat, as well as trying to get some exercise and eat "healthfully" in a way that sounds much less disturbing than stories about the epidemic of eating disorders among American girls. Black girls, Nichter learned, escape the weight obsession and the "fat talk" that is so pervasive among white girls. The African-American girls she talked with were much more satisfied with their bodies than were the white girls. For them, beauty was a matter of projecting attitude ("'tude") and moving with confidence and style. Fat Talk takes the reader into the lives of girls as daughters, providing insights into how parents talk to their teenagers about their changing bodies. The black girls admired their mothers' strength; the white girls described their mothers' own "fat talk," their fathers' uncomfortable teasing, and the way they and their mothers sometimes dieted together to escape the family "curse"--flabby thighs, ample hips. Moving beyond negative stereotypes of mother-daughter relationships, Nichter sensitively examines the issues and struggles that mothers face in bringing up their daughters, particularly in relation to body image, and considers how they can help their daughters move beyond rigid and stereotyped images of ideal beauty. 606 $aTeenage girls$xNutrition 606 $aReducing diets 606 $aObesity in adolescence 606 $aBody image in adolescence 615 0$aTeenage girls$xNutrition. 615 0$aReducing diets. 615 0$aObesity in adolescence. 615 0$aBody image in adolescence. 676 $a613.25083520973 700 $aNichter$b Mimi$01807691 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955105403321 996 $aFat talk$94357555 997 $aUNINA