"A Way Outa No Way" by Becky Wangsgaard Thompson

Eating problems such as anorexia, bulimia, extensive dieting, or binging, have always been a phenomenon that affects many people, especially women, physically and emotionally. Not until recently according to Becky Wangsgaard there was not research done that included African American, Latina, Asian and working class Native Americans as groups affected by this issue because just white upper and middle class Americans were consider for the previous researches. Also previously the only known cause for this problem was "culture of thinness", concept that was also challenge by Becky Wangsgaard after proposing that those eating problems are also ways women nowadays use in order to cope with their traumas. In other words, the ideal figure that our society sells to women as beauty is not the only cause of eating problems, because race, class, and sexuality are really the key terms in other to understand the real reason behind this issue. 

Eating problems were mainly connected with sexual abuse, poverty, heterosexuals, racism and class injuries. Perhaps all this traumas show that the reason for this phenomenon is clearly affected by the socialization process they were expose of. Perhaps, even the relationship and image they had of their body also changed which lead to an intense feeling of discomfort with who they actually view themselves as. The fact that most of the participants of the research developed their conditions at an early age, reported that it lasted more than half of the life, should made us question on how power this issue really is. In other words, most of our girls may be experiencing the same struggles that the participants pass through, but many of us may not even recognized until later on or when its too late.