Sacrificing our selves for love : why women compromise health, and self-esteem-- and how to stop / by Jane Wegscheider Hyman and Esther R. Rome ; in cooperation with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-222) and index.
Contents
I. Trying to look different. Self-starvation -- Help for women with eating disorders -- Changing our bodies through surgery -- Caveat emptor : shopping for a cosmetic surgeon -- Inflating our image : breast implants -- Accepting ourselves. II. Living in abusive relationships. Intimate abuse -- About rape -- Saving ourselves. III. Dying for love. The costs of physical love -- Choosing ourselves.
