Helen Gremillion

Feeding Anorexia

Gender and Power at a Treatment Center

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking study of anorexia treatment that shows how the treatment often makes the diesease worse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 148mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331339
• ISBN-10: 0822331330
• Artikelnr.: 21763744

Autorenporträt

Helen Gremillion is Assistant Professor and Peg Zeglin Brand Chair in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xv
Introduction: In Fitness and in Health 1
1. Crafting Resourceful Bodies and Achieving Identities 43
2. Minimal Mothers and Psychiatric Discourse about the Family 73
3. Hierarchy, Power, and Gender in the "Therapeutic Family" 119
4. "Typical Parents Are Not 'Borderline'": Embedded Constructs of Race,
Ethnicity, and Class 157
Epilogue: A Narrative Approach to Anorexia 193
Notes 211
Bibliography 247
Index 271