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Kim Chernin

Born

in Bronx, New York, The United States

May 07, 1940

Died

December 17, 2020

Website

http://kimchernin.com/

Genre

Women & Gender Studies, Health, Mind & Body

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Kim Chernin (born May 7, 1940, Bronx, New York) is an American fiction and nonfiction writer, feminist, poet, and memoirist. She has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 1,003 ratings · 109 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness – A Critical Analysis of Why Women Embrace Thinness and Men Encourage It 3.89 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In My Mother's House: A Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1984 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity 3.68 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1985 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself 3.82 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Life as a Boy: A Woman's Story 3.44 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother: Tales of Transformation in Women's Lives by Kim Chernin, Francesca Belanger (Designed by) 3.49 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In My Father's Garden: A Daughter's Search for a Spiritual Life 3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Duaghters by Kim Chernin (Contributor), Vivian Gornick (Contributor), Tillie Olsen (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flame Bearers: A Novel 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Womansize: Tyranny of Slenderness 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What unites the women who seek to reduce their weight is the fact that they look for an answer to life's problems in the control of their bodies and appetites. A woman who walks through the doors of a weight watching organization and enters the women's reduction movement has allowed her culture to persuade her that significant relief from personal and cultural dilemma is to be found in the reduction of her body, thus, her decision, although she may not be aware of it, enters the domain of the body politik and becomes symbolically a political act." p.101”
― Kim Chernin, The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness – A Critical Analysis of Why Women Embrace Thinness and Men Encourage It

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“We felt the one thing the system feared was angry women. We wanted milk for the children.”
― Kim Chernin

tags: angry-women, children, milk, mothers, socialism, union, women

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“[In the case of Ellen West], whatever chance the woman might have had to grow and to express herself will now have vanished. For her obsession with her body is, fundamentally, an expression of violence towards her soul.”
― Kim Chernin, The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness – A Critical Analysis of Why Women Embrace Thinness and Men Encourage It

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