Anorexic Bodies - A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa (Paperback, Revised)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1995
First published:	1993
Authors:	Morag MacSween
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-02847-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > Eating disorders & therapy
LSN:	0-415-02847-7
Barcode:	9780415028479

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