Description
Title: Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa (Revised)
Author: Morag Macsween
ISBN: 9780415028479
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 280
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : 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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