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Title Hungry for more : a keeping-it-real guide for Black women on weight and body image / Robyn McGee.
Author McGee, Robyn.
Publication Info. Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, c2005.
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Description xxiii, 218 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: why I wrote hungry -- Cathy's slim hopes -- From the motherland to Mickey D's -- Can a big sister get some love? -- Digging our graves with our forks -- Big girls in la-la land -- Keeping secrets, taking risks -- Latinas: our bodies ourselves -- Before you make the call -- Generation triple Xl -- Afterword: after the hunger -- Notes -- Resources.
Subject Brakefield, Carolyn Cathy, 1951-2001 -- Death.
Obesity in women -- Prevention.
African American women -- Health and hygiene.
Body image in women.
Overweight women -- Biography.
Gastric bypass -- Patients -- Biography.
Gastric bypass -- Complications.
ISBN 1580051499 : $13.95