Faith Born of Seduction - Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion

How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect?
The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating disorders reveals an important, and so far unexamined, psychosocial phenomenon. Drawing from interviews with incest survivors whose sexual and religious backgrounds are intimately connected with their problematic relationship with food, Jennifer Manlowe here illuminates the connections between female body, weight, and appetite preoccupations.
Manlowe offers social and psychological insights into the most common forms of female suffering?incest and body hatred. The volume is intended as a resource for professionals, advocates, friends of survivors, and most importantly, the survivor of incest herself as she attempts to understand the links of meaning in her mind between her incest experience and her subsequent eating disorder.

Info autore

Jennifer L. Manlowe is Coordinator of the Brown University AIDS Program. She is the author of Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion, also available from NYU Press.

Riassunto

Offers social and psychological insights into the most common forms of female sufferingincest and body hatred

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bhava-Bhuti Bhava-Bhuti, Jennifer Manlowe, Jennifer L Manlowe, Jennifer L. Manlowe
• Con la collaborazione di: Sheldon Pollock (Traduzione)
• Editore: New York University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.1995
• EAN: 9780814755297
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-5529-7
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 148 mm x 227 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 308 g
• Serie: Open Access Lib and Hc
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Vita di coppia, sessualità; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche