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NotesPreface1. Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (Boston: Little, Brown,1992), p. 222.2. Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (NewYork: Doubleday, 1992), pp. 180-82.3. Ibid., p. 207.4. Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a ModernDisease (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), pp. 19-20.5. Ibid., p. 33.6. FDA Consumer, May 1986 and March 1992. The report is based on figures providedby the National Center of Health Statistics (NCHS).7. Ann Landers, "Women and Distorted Body Images," Boston Globe, April 29, 1992.8. Wolf sent me a copy of a letter that she had written to her editors, which said, "Ihave . . . learned that the statistic, taken from Brumberg's Fasting Girls and providedto her by the American Anorexia and Bulimia Association, is not accurate. Please letme know how to correct this error in future editions:"9. Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 208.10. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender, eds., The Knowledge Explosion: Generations ofFeminist Scholarship (New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1992),p. 15.