Morag Macsween, Morag Macsween

Anorexic Bodies (eBook, ePUB)

A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136103407
• Artikelnr.: 40102624

Autorenporträt

Morag MacSween

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The discovery of the concept 2. The enigma variations:
psychiatric explanations of anorexia 3. Women's oppression: feminist
explanations of anorexia 4. Anorexic meanings 5. The sociology of the body
6. The feminine body 7. The anorexic sympton 8. Conclusion: the anorexic
body Bibliography