Gremillion / Appadurai / Comaroff Feeding Anorexia

Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8501-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

Reihe: Body, Commodity, Text

A groundbreaking study of anorexia treatment that shows how the treatment often makes the diesease worse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gremillion, Helen

Appadurai, Arjun

Comaroff, John L.

Farquhar, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Essstörungen & Therapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue xv

Introduction: In Fitness and in Health 1

1. Crafting Resourceful Bodies and Achieving Identities 43

2. Minimal Mothers and Psychiatric Discourse about the Family 73

3. Hierarchy, Power, and Gender in the "Therapeutic Family" 119

4. "Typical Parents Are Not 'Borderline'": Embedded Constructs of Race, Ethnicity, and Class 157

Epilogue: A Narrative Approach to Anorexia 193

Notes 211

Bibliography 247

Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Gremillion is Assistant Professor and Peg Zeglin Brand Chair in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.