Thin Is Just a Four Letter Word6 reviews Dee Hakala Dell, 1997 An excellent book. Motivational and fun to read. + Riveting and inspiring + Powerful words of healing, truth & love for the obese Dee Hakala understands the difficulties and emotional pain involved with a person who is overweight. Her book shows how she overcame and is still dealing with the problems involved in changing ones life to be happy. Good reading, and helpful.             Dying to Be Thin: A Fat City Mystery (Fat City Mysteries)9 reviews Kathryn Lilley Signet, 2007 Original and fun cozy mystery + Entertaining Read + Can't Wait To Read More! + ...great new sleuth who is smart, funny, and very human! + Fabulous!             Minding the Body5 reviews Patricia Foster Anchor, 1995 Inspirational + amazing stories + Good Read + Focus on Perfection + Body Struggles             Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body26 reviews Courtney E. Martin Free Press, 2007 The book we have all been waiting for! + fantastic book + A Perfect 10. + Faciliated my recovery - the only thing that has EVER helped me!             Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image (Live Girls)21 reviews Seal Press, 2003 Great book! + Funny & Interesting! + a must read for every woman, especially teenager + I am giving this book 4 stars. I wanted to give it 3.5. I don't know how to do to this or if it is even possible. Ya...             Bountiful Women: Large Women's Secrets for Living the Life They Desire15 reviews Bonnie Bernell Wildcat Canyon Press, 2000 Hooray for Bountiful Women! + A Fantastic Therapy Session! + Insightful commentary, advice, and observations + a must-read for women of size             Big Fat Manifesto3 reviews Susan Vaught Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2007 Courtesy of Teens Read Too + A role model + Great read Does the world discriminate against fat people? Jamie Carcaterra thinks they do, and she is out to change things. Proudly calling herself "Fat Girl," Jamie has started a feature column by the same name in The Wire, her school newspaper. Making people aware of the unfairness suffered by ...             The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health54 reviews Paul Campos, 2004 They have been lying to us again. + A Sane Look at an Increasingly Insane Issue + Brilliant + the diet industry's reality check + Tells it Like it Is             Food and Loathing: A Lament31 reviews Betsy Lerner, 2003 An honest account of woman's struggle to be thin and her depths of despair + A very personal favorate + Brutally honest... + An excellent memoir             Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery76 reviews Meg Cabot Avon A, 2006 Great, Great Mystery + Meg Cabot can be funny! + Mystery in NYC + great that it wasn't what i expected             SEXY AT ANY SIZE : The Real Woman's Guide To Dating and Romance24 reviews Katie Arons, Jacqueline Shannon, 1999 What a CONFIDENCE booster! + A nice reassurance + Fat Fatism I absolutely LOVED this book, and I read it twice. The author talks in detail about typical personality styles of plus size women and how to overcome those stereotypical facads and be a woman of confidence and size. A GREAT READ for those coming into being plus sized, or lifetimers.             When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession22 reviews Jane R. Hirschmann Ballantine Books, 1996 Brilliant!!! + A Life Changing Book + Life is better when you love yourself! + Withhold judgement until you read more than the first chapter             Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition12 reviews Susan Bordo University of California Press, 2004 Brilliant, relevant, a must-read for feminists + insightful critique of patriarchy/modern culture/postmodernism + This book was earthshattering! + Convincing             The Good Body10 reviews Eve Ensler Villard, 2005 An Evening With Eve + Short but to the point + I liked it better. + Loving the country that is the body + You've been waiting for this.             Feeling Good about the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems1 review Sabine Wilhelm The Guilford Press, 2006 New hope for those with BDD I found Sabine Wilhelm's book to be both easy to read and very informative. The step by step approach detailed in the book is exactly what is needed for patients and clinicians alike. I have enthusiastically been recommending it to all of my clients who have BDD, and to colleagues interested in ...             The Next Big Thing66 reviews Johanna Edwards Amazon Remainders Account, 2005 The Next Big Thing!! + Fun! + Cute!! + From Fat to Famous             The Vagina Monologues106 reviews Eve Ensler Villard, 2007 Thumbs up. + Not for every woman- but definitely for me! + With humor, wit and sadness Three friends and I read this book in conjunction and we could not stop talking about it. It's a quick read, sparks thought and emotion.             The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls45 reviews Joan Jacobs Brumberg Vintage, 1998 Why "beautiful on the inside" doesn't seem to matter anymore + Understanding a Cultural Obsession + Fabulous What happened to American girls, to women, over the past hundred years, that caused a quantum shift in how they present themselves to the world? Intelligence, spirituality, charity and volunteerism, and skills for all things domestic were once revered. The most popular girl in her class wasn't ...             Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourself191 reviews Marla Cilley, Leanne Ely Fireside, 2007 Change your mind, change your body!!!! + Body Clutter + Taking control is about setting goals - and keeping them. + Just What the Doctor Ordered             Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession3 reviews Don Kulick, Anne Meneley Tarcher, 2005 A whole new way of thinking + A needed recommondation + Both intriguing and relevant Fat porn? Spam? Starbucks? I will never think of fat the same way again. This book was so much fun to read--it really made anthropology accessible, and helped me look at fat as something completely subjective. I love that fat is beautiful in places around the world. I also love that other places ...