Anorexic Bodies

A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-02847-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious. Anorexia attempts to resist both these constructions in the creation of a closed, desireless body. Since anorexic women resist the power of collective ideologies their resistance cannot work - the closed body becomes its own prison.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macsween, Morag

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Essstörungen & Therapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Essstörungen & Therapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The discovery of the concept 2. The enigma variations: psychiatric explanations of anorexia 3. Women's oppression: feminist explanations of anorexia 4. Anorexic meanings 5. The sociology of the body 6. The feminine body 7. The anorexic sympton 8. Conclusion: the anorexic body Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Morag MacSween