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Abject Relations - Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Paperback)
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Abject Relations - Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Paperback)
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Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia
nervosa, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with
individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed
ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what
it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Participants
describe difficulties with social relatedness, not being at home in
their body, and feeling disgusting and worthless. For them,
anorexia becomes a seductive and empowering practice that cleanses
bodies of shame and guilt, becomes a friend and support, and allows
them to forge new social relations. Unraveling anorexia's complex
relationships and contradictions, Warin constructs a new
theoretical perspective rooted in a socio-cultural context of
bodies and gender. Abject Relations departs from conventional
psychotherapy approaches and offers a different "logic," one that
involves the shifting forces of power, disgust, and desire. It
provides new ways of thinking that may have implications for future
treatment regimes. Megan Warin is a social anthropologist in the
Discipline of Gender, Work, and Social Inquiry at the University of
Adelaide. She has previously worked across anthropology,
psychiatry, and public health at various institutions, including
Durham University, the University of Adelaide, and Flinders
University of South Australia. Praise for Abject Relations: "Warin
has taken the topic of anorexia, which many of us feel that we know
something about, and brilliantly cast a whole new light on it.
Through vivid ethnography and evocative prose, she ensures that you
won't think about anorexia or those affected by it in quite the
same way ever again."-C. H. Browner, UCLA School of Medicine
"Anthropologist Megan Warin combines rich multisited ethnographic
research on anorexic women's lived experiences with a sophisticated
theoretical approach based on concepts of abjection and relatedness
to offer fascinating and original insights into anorexia
nervosa."-Carole M. Counihan, author of The Anthropology of Food
and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power
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