Eating Problems

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body. --Simone de Beauvoir


A Chance to Heal (An information and advocacy organization).

ANRED (Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.)

Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center

Eating Disorders Blogs

Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action

Eating Disorders Forum (Interactive forum website).

Eating Disorders Information Network

Eating Disorders Recovery: Information and Links

The Elisa Project

Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World. Ludwig, David. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 2007.

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. Critser, Greg. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders. Fallon, P., Katzman, M. and Wooley, S. (eds.). New York: Guilford Press, 1993. (Includes a chapter by Jean Kilbourne)

Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis and What We Can Do About It. Brownell, Kelly D. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004.

A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems. Thompson, Becky. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

IAEDP (International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals).

Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry. Fraser, Laura. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1997.

The Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders

NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association).

The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, and Practice. Levine, Michael P. and Smolak, Linda. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005.

Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness. (A film version of Jean Kilbourne's lecture).

Something Fishy (Popular recovery website).