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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777988503321

Autore

Gremillion Helen <1965->

Titolo

Feeding anorexia [[electronic resource] ] : gender and power at a treatment center / / Helen Gremillion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-283-06465-0

9786613064653

0-8223-8501-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Body, commodity, text

Disciplina

362.2/5

Soggetti

Anorexia nervosa - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: In fitness and in health -- Crafting resourceful bodies and achieving identities -- Minimal mothers and psychiatric discourse about the family -- Hierarchy, power, and gender in the "therapeutic family" -- "Typical patients are not 'borderline'": embedded constructs of race, ethnicity, and class.

Sommario/riassunto

A groundbreaking study of anorexia treatment that shows how the treatment often makes the diesease worse.