How long does it take to read The Golden Cage?
Hilde Bruch
The Golden Cage by Hilde Bruch takes about 2 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 55 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1978. 159 pages, about 43,725 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this text, a renowned psychiatrist (recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on anorexia nervosa) relates her experience and discoveries in dealing with this baffling disorder. It is not, as the name implies, simply a loss of appetite. Rather, it involves a relentless pursuit of excessive thinness, undertaken despite continual hunger, acute pain, and occasionally fatal consequences. The victims of anorexia are mostly adolescent and preadolescent girls who have otherwise been model children from "good homes." Often they feel trapped by unattainable goals and expectations--a "golden cage" of privilege where they feel they do not belong and cannot survive. The author uses numerous examples from her own case studies to give a vivid picture of the causes, effects, and possible treatment of the disease.
Subjects: Anorexia nervosa, Reducing diets, Diet, reducing, Adverse effects, Reducing Diet, Anorexie mentale
