"This moving and powerful book explores in intricate detail the
spiritual consequences for women of early forms of sexual abuse and
trauma. It is hard to imagine a more important subject for
contemporary Americans. Manlowe's thorough scholarship and
original, probing interviews will make her wonderful book a lasting
contribution."
--Charles B. Strozier, author of "Apocalypse: On the Psychology of
Fundamentalism in America"
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.
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