Popular books- Amy Foss

Works Cited

Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: a Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1999. Print.

This book is about a women who decided she was fat at the age of five, and by age nine she was secretly bulimic. By age fifteen she was anorexic and the shuttle back and forth between anorexia and bulimia continued till she was twenty years old and fifty five pounds. This book focuses on her struggle to recover and the obstacles she had to endure to get back on track to recovery. This book will help my research because it provides a very descriptive account of what it is like to struggle with an eating disorder your whole life and what factors can lead into a person developing such a disorder.

Knapp, Caroline. Appetites: Why Women Want. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Print.

In this book author Caroline Knapp writes about her struggle with anorexia. She argues the question; how does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling women and their desires. She uses her own experiences to explore this question. This book will be valuable to my research because it gives me insight into the disorder from someone that has experienced an eating disorder firsthand. This is important because I myself do not understand the mindset that someone is in while battling an eating disorder. So this information will help me have a background of the disorder while continuing my research.