Helen Gremillion

Feeding Anorexia

Gender and Power at a Treatment Center

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Many have sensed that anorexia makes visible in some way pathologies that are particular to liberal consumer society, but few have grasped its nature and significance as acutely as Helen Gremillion. Her account is as compelling as it is compassionate."--Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331209
• ISBN-10: 0822331209
• Artikelnr.: 22408887

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