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ANA'S GIRLS: The Essential Guide to the Underground Eating Disorder Community Online

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Author: Eda Uca
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 236
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6

ISBN: 1418437956
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9781418437954
ASIN: 1418437956

Publication Date: October 25, 2004
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
This groundbreaking book is the only honest, balanced and complete introduction to the frightening online eating disorder underground. Explore a world that no one wants to believe exists: learn the secret code words, debunk the myths (find out why thousands of young girls are really flooding these sites) and read hundreds of anonymous rants, declarations of commitment and pleas for help from Ana's girls.This book does not promote eating disorders. It exposes the undeniable fact that thousands of young people are struggling in isolation with very real, life threatening disorders and we, as a society have not been able to help them. If we ignore this information, we choose to ignore their cry and lose the opportunity to gain potent insight into their world.Ana's girls are our children, our sisters, our spouses, our patients and our students; they are represented in every class and race. No community is sheltered from this pain. No community is complete without their health. Let us take the first step towards becoming whole by hearing their cry.

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1 out of 5 stars

Waste of money. December 7, 2008
Please, save your money. "Ana's Girls" is far from an "essential guide" to the pro-ana community; the vast majority of the book is excerpts from various web sites. Although the material is interesting, you could easily find it online for free. Furthermore, I was hoping for some in-depth analytical text about the community and about larger cultural issues, but the author only provided basic, common-sense, surface-level analysis. She doesn't even use secondary sources to back up what little she does have to say. If you want to learn about this community, I recommend doing a little research via Google, but don't waste your money on this book.

1 out of 5 stars

Not informative or helpful January 15, 2008
This book could have been written with half the number of pages it had. The type is not only very large, but the lines are double-spaced, like a college term paper. I read it in an hour, and I didn't learn much that I didn't already know. And I don't even have an eating disorder.br /br /I liked a few things in the book. One of them was an entry written by an ED sufferer who still struggles on and off, and found in certain ED websites a safe place where she could talk and people would understand. She provided a rationale for not pushing these sites underground or trying to shut them down. Something else I was struck by was the general tenor of the message board posts written by people with eating disorders. They discouraged the advances of young girls who want to "become ana", and in their comments to each other, they are protective, sincere and very kind. I wish they were as kind to their own bodies, but hopefully that will come in time. The third thing that surprised me was that there were some "normal-bodied" people in the user groups. They posted their current weights and nobody criticized them for it. I guess that makes sense, since eveyone seems to be engaged in her own struggle.br /br /

1 out of 5 stars

Lots of potential not used December 25, 2007
This book was a disappointment. The author basically just copied various website pages and threw them together in this book. There was so much opportunity to write a really good book on the online "ana community" that she just didn't use or do. Not worth the money, or time to read. Do your own online research and I guarantee you will get much more quality information.

1 out of 5 stars

Awesome for anorexics November 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

If you love to nurture your eating disorder, by all means get this book. It's completely triggering and delightfully helpful in encouraging you to hold on to habits which will pave the way to an early grave.

4 out of 5 stars

Informative January 4, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a very good book for anyone that may know someone struggling with an eating disorder. It has a lot of information that may shed some light on why eating disorders are so important(comsuming) to the people struggling with them.

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