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Not all Black girls know how to eat : a story of bulimia

2009

Format:	Book
Author:	Covington Armstrong, Stephanie.
Title:	Not all Black girls know how to eat : a story of bulimia / Stephanie Covington Armstrong.
Publisher, Date:	Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2009.
Description:	xiii, 241 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:	Bulimia is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem. This is a story of a black woman who struggles, gets help, overcomes her shame, and conquers her addiction to food as a weapon against herself. From publisher description.
Subjects:	Covington Armstrong, Stephanie -- Health. Covington Armstrong, Stephanie -- Mental health. Covington Armstrong, Stephanie -- Childhood and youth. Bulimia -- United States -- Case studies. Bulimia -- Patients -- United States -- Biography. African American women -- Biography. African American women -- Mental health -- Case studies. African American families -- New York (State) -- New York. Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography. New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Genre:	Autobiographies. Case studies.
Contents:	A hungry childhood -- Returning home -- Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn -- Monster in the family -- Father's Day -- Missing mommy -- A Communist among us -- The trouble with puberty -- Tragedies -- On my own -- Losing it -- Hollywood, California -- What goes down must come up -- Manorexic -- New York -- Location, location, location -- Dating for doughnuts -- Resistance is futile -- Giving up the fight -- The inward journey -- On solid ground.
LCCN:	2009007354
ISBN:	9781556527869 1556527861 9781556527869 (pbk.) 1556527861 (pbk.)
Other Number:	276815638
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	2
Control Number:	822123
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Call Number:	BIO Covingto

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