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Beyond Measure (Paperback)
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Beyond Measure (Paperback)
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A touching, tender and at times funny account of a woman's struggle
for stature in a 4 foot 8 1/2 inch tall body, Beyond Measure speaks
to the heart of soul-breaking attempts to fit an arbitrary and
elusive cultural ideal of physical perfection. Being short isn't
the problem, Ellen Frankel insists. Instead, the real difficulties
lie in the social bias against short people. Ellen shares the
difficulties of living short in a world in which stereotypes are
based on gender and size. She moves beyond her own experience into
the political realm in revealing how pharmaceutical companies--with
government backing--are expanding the market for human growth
hormone treatment by reclassifying healthy short children as
patients in "need" of such injections in hopes of making them
taller. She shares the dilemma of being subjected to simultaneous
messages that her physical body should be bigger--that is, taller,
but not wider--while her expansive spiritual body should be
smaller. As a result of too much attention on the external rather
than the internal workings of the soul, Ellen flirts with eating
disorders and unhealthy relationships with powerful males in an
attempt to compensate for her feelings of not "measuring up." In
the process, her real self slips farther away. The path out of her
dilemma lies in the shadow of the tallest mountain on Earth. It is
through a spiritual pilgrimmage to Nepal that Ellen discovers her
own strength and spirit, and that we are all dwarfed by Everest and
beyond measure.
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