| Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa Contributor(s): Macsween, Morag (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138418765 ISBN-13: 9781138418769 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Eating Disorders - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| Physical Information: 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |