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Millman, Marcia Honey was born on November 2, 1946 in New York City. Daughter of Harry and Esther (Schrager) Millman.
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Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America by Marcia Millman (1980-02-01)
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Warm Hearts and Cold Cash: The Intimate Dynamics of Families and Money
(Marcia Millman questions the belief that the family is a ...)
Marcia Millman questions the belief that the family is a haven in a heartless world, and argues that it is characterized by many of the hard traits of the market, expressed in the ways in which we use money. By focusing attention on money and the way it works within the intimate economy of the family, she cuts through the sentimentality that obscures this important aspect of familial relationships.
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Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America
( We are a fat-obsessed society. Four out of every ten Am...)
We are a fat-obsessed society. Four out of every ten Americans are clinically overweight. Being fat, especially for American women, holds a special significance and is laden with symbolism. Low-fat foods, dieting programs, and diet books, few of which make a lasting difference, are the basis of a multibillion-dollar industry. Yet, despite this obsession with weight control, there is little serious discussion of the deeper meaning of obesity. In a way, obesity is as powerful a taboo as sexuality was for the Victorians. This book argues that the effort to lose weight should be secondary to an understanding of the mythology of fat. Being fat is seen as much more than a physical condition. Fat women are stereotypically viewed as unfeminine, either in flight from sexuality or sexual in some forbidden way, intentionally antisocial, out of control, hostile, aggressive. Using case studies, moving, sometimes painful, autobiographical accounts, and observing such organizations as a fat rights society, Overeaters Anonymous, and a children's diet camp, Marcia Millman reveals how people live with the burden of these stereotypes and explores the truth or falsity of them. This book proves the humanness, the defiance, vulnerability, self-doubt, courage, and even the beauty of those who violate our arbitrary standards of physical beauty. It sees them as whole people, to whom attention must be paid.
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Millman Such A Pretty Face by M Millman (1980-04-01)
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Marcia Honey Millman
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Bachelor in History, Brandeis U., 1967; Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Brandeis U., 1972; postgraduate, Yale University, 1967-1968.
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Professor sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1971; chairperson department sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988-1991.
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Warm Hearts and Cold Cash: The Intimate Dynamics of Families and Money
(Marcia Millman questions the belief that the family is a ...)
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Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America
( We are a fat-obsessed society. Four out of every ten Am...)
- The Unkindest Cut: Life in the Backrooms of Medicine
- Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America by Marcia Millman (1980-02-01)
- Millman Such A Pretty Face by M Millman (1980-04-01)
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Warm Hearts and Cold Cash: The Intimate Dynamics of Families and Money
