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Studies in Medical Anthropology
[2009]
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Autor(en) / Beteiligte
Titel
Abject Relations : Everyday Worlds of Anorexia
Ist Teil von
  • Studies in Medical Anthropology
Ort / Verlag
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
[2009]
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Participants describe difficulties with social relatedness, not being at home in their body, and feeling disgusting and worthless. For them, anorexia becomes a seductive and empowering practice that cleanses bodies of shame and guilt, becomes a friend and support, and allows them to forge new social relations. Unraveling anorexia's complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical perspective rooted in a socio-cultural context of bodies and gender. Abject Relations departs from conventional psychotherapy approaches and offers a different "logic," one that involves the shifting forces of power, disgust, and desire and provides new ways of thinking that may have implications for future treatment regimes
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISBN: 9780813548210
DOI: 10.36019/9780813548210
OCLC-Nummer: 1017998396, 1017998396
Titel-ID: 990369159240206441
Format
1 online resource (248 p.)
Schlagworte
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General