Booklist

A free Eating Disorders catalogue with a complete list of classic and current books on eating and body image issues can be downloaded from the publishers website at www.gurze.com

Below is a listing of books written about:

Eating issues
Young people and eating issues
Healthy weight myths
Feminism and eating issues
Tools for change
Size acceptance/activism

Eating issues

• Surviving an Eating Disorder - Strategies for Families and Friends Michelle Siegel. Harper Collins (1988)
• Women Afraid to Eat: Breaking free in today's weight-obsessed world Frances Berg Healthy Weight Network (2000)
• A Hunger So Wide and So Deep Becky Thompson. University of Minnesota Press (1994)
• Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty. Kaz Cooke. Penguin (1994)
• The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession Harrison Pope, Katherine Phillips & Roberto Olivardia, Free Press (2000)
• Making Weight Arnold Andersen. Gurze Books (2000)
• Feast or Famine: A New Zealand Guide to Understanding Eating Disorders. Karen McMillan. Random House (2006)

Young people and eating issues

• How to Get Your Kid to Eat But Not Too Much. Ellyn Satter. Bull Publishing Company (1997)
• When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence
  Sandra Susan Friedman. Harper Collins (1997)
• Preventing Childhood Eating Problems: A Practical, Positive Approach to Raising Children Free of Food and Weight Conflicts Jane Hirschmann & Lela Zaphiropoulos. CA: Gurze Books (1993)
• Afraid to Eat: Children and Teen in Weight Crisis
  Frances M. Berg., Health Weight Publishing Network (1997)
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Mary Pipher. Doubleday (1996)
• Healthy Kids Happy Kids: Better Health for Larger Kids in New Zealand Lynda Finn Random House (2004)

Healthy weight myths

• The Obesity Myth: Why our obsession with weight is hazardous to our health. Paul Campos. Penguin (2004)
• The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology. Gard, M & Wright, J. London, Routledge (2005)
• Big Fat Lies: The truth about your weight and your health. Glenn A Gaesser. Gurze Books (2002)
• Fat Chance! The Myth of Dieting Explained Jane Ogden. Routledge (1992)
• Losing It. America's Obsession with weight and the industry that feeds it Laura Fraser (1997)

Feminism and eating issues

• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
  Susan Bordo. University of California Press (1993)
• Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders Patricia Fallon, Melanie A. Katzman, and Susan C. Wooley (Editors). The Guilford Press (1994)
• The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women Naomi Wolf. Vintage (1991)

Tools for change

• Feeding the Hungry Heart. Geneen Roth. Penguin (1982)
• Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating Geneen Roth. Penguin (1984)
• Intuitive Eating A Recovery Book for the Chronic Dieter Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. St. Martin's Press (1995)
• Nothing to lose: A Guide to Sane Living in a Larger Body Cheri Erdman HarperCollins Publishers (1995)
• Eating in the Light of the Moon: How women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors and storytelling. Anita Johnston. Gurze Books (2000)
• Biting the Hand that Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia and Bulimia. Rick Maisel, David Epston & Ali Borden, Norton (2004). See Resouces Page

Size acceptance/activism

• Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size Charlotte Cooper. The Women's Press Ltd (1998)
• Largely Happy : Changing Your Mind About Your Body Lynda Finn. David Bateman Ltd (2000)
• Fat!So? Because you don’t have to Apologise for your Size! Marilyn Wann, Ten Speed Press (1998)
• Body Wars : Making Peace with Women’s Bodies An Activist’s Guide Margo Maine Gurze Books (2000)