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BEYOND
MEASURE a memoir about short stature
& inner growth
Ellen
Frankel
September 2006
Beyond
Measure
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A touching, tender and at times funny
account of a woman’s struggle for stature in a 4 foot 8˝ 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. Self-destructive behaviors emerge from 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 pilgrimage to Nepal that Ellen discovers her own strength and
spirit, and that we are all dwarfed by Everest and beyond measure.
"If you have ever
measured your height or weight and felt good or bad about yourself as a result,
you need this book.
In its pages, Ellen Frankel makes an important contribution to human
liberation by telling the most fabulous story that can be told, the story of a person
coming fully into her own. This book is thought-provoking, heart-rending, and a genuine solace for people of all sizes."
Marilyn
Wann,author of FAT!SO? Because You Don't Have to Apologize For Your Size
"Delightful and provocative
both as a personal journey and as a candid look at how the social
prejudice against short stature has been reconfigured as a medical issue." Alan Cassels, co-author of Selling Sickness
—How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies
Are Turning Us All Into
Patients
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