"An original explanation for eating problems. Becky Thompson argues that many people turn to food - binge eating, dieting, purging, or starving as a sensible means of coping with physical and psychic 'atrocities' deriving from racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, the stress of acculturation, and emotional, physical and sexual abuse". Thompson's inclusive approach produces a serious challenge to the stereotype that eating problems stem primarily from a concern about
