A cult grows in America -- Men and women: mind and body -- Selling the body beautiful: food, dieting, and recovery -- There's no business like the body business: fitness and cosmetic surgery -- Becoming a certain body -- Joining the cult of thinness -- How young women experience being a body in their families, peer groups, and school environments -- New recruits for the cult of thinness: preteen girls, adolescents, straight men, gays, lesbians, and ethnic women -- Breaking free from the cult of thinness.
