Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa
ISBN-10
1136103406
ISBN-13
9781136103407
Category
Medical
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2013-11-26
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Morag MacSween

Description

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.

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