Anorexic Bodies - A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Morag MacSween

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Morag Macsween
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.11.1995
• EAN: 9780415028479
• ISBN: 978-0-415-02847-9
• Pagine: 280
• Peso: 385 g
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Psychotherapy, Eating disorders & therapy, Eating disorders and therapy