Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

This book takes up the challenge of examining women's understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women's distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain discourses and practices, rather than a reaction triggered by child sexual abuse. Guided by a contemporary feminist framework and Mikhail Bakhtin's sociological linguistics, to substantiate the argument, women's own poetry and drawings are used as evidence to develop, support and supplement research findings. The book establishes that an eating disorder is 'an understandable response' to sexual trauma and shifts the focus away from 'a damaged personality'. Even more importantly, it demonstrates that women with eating disorders are using their bodies as a form of resistance to express silenced traumas that remain in the silenced female body. This is an active way of making sense of experiences of child sexual abuse.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Lisa Hodge
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-981-3362-98-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Nursing > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology Books > Academic & Education > Varsity Textbooks > Nursing
LSN:	981-3362-98-7
Barcode:	9789813362987

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