The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa

In the early 1930s, André Kertész was commissioned to do a group of nude portraits of women, reflected in a parabolic mirror, similar to those found in funhouses. Back then, it would have been difficult to imagine that an image like this would have been used on the cover of a book about Anorexia Nervosa and female body image.

Compare the visual metaphor created by Kertész’s image with that of Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, used on the cover of a book about similar subject matter, found here.