Abject relations

From the publisher. 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.

שנה

2009

שפה

English

סדרה

Studies in medical anthropology

הוצאה

Rutgers University Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

229

ISBN

9780813546896

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