Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
1995

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
280 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781136103407
Related ISBNs:
9780415028479, 9781138418769, 9781315002293
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Morag MacSween, Morag Macsween
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Medicine, Sociology
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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