03993nam 2200709Ia 450 991078083150332120230207231030.01-280-49344-597866135886780-8135-4821-7978083154821010.36019/9780813548210(CKB)2520000000007924(EBL)870918(OCoLC)781635125(SSID)ssj0000463290(PQKBManifestationID)11279778(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000463290(PQKBWorkID)10409254(PQKB)10411248(MiAaPQ)EBC870918(MdBmJHUP)muse8003(DE-B1597)530245(OCoLC)1017998396(DE-B1597)9780813548210(Au-PeEL)EBL870918(CaPaEBR)ebr10367265(CaONFJC)MIL358867(EXLCZ)99252000000000792420090227d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAbject relations[electronic resource] everyday worlds of anorexia /Megan WarinNew Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press20091 online resource (249 p.)Studies in medical anthropologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4689-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Steering a Course between Fields -- 3. Knowing through the Body -- 4. The Complexities of Being Anorexic -- 5. Abject Relations with Food -- 6. "Me and My Disgusting Body" -- 7. Be-coming Clean -- 8. Reimagining Anorexia -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the AuthorAbject 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.Studies in medical anthropology.Anorexia nervosaAnorexia nervosaPatientsPsychologyAnorexia nervosaSocial aspectssocial science, anthropology, medical, health, medicine, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, eating disorder, food restriction, mental disorder, physical health, mental health, individualism, beauty, self control, autonomy, gender studies, psychotherapy, binge eating, bulimia, bulimia nervosa, body dysmorphia, body dysmorphic disorder, diet, dieting, anxiety, anxiety disorder, depression, substance abuse, food, eating, ethnography, social anthropology, public health, anorexic.Anorexia nervosa.Anorexia nervosaPatientsPsychology.Anorexia nervosaSocial aspects.362.196/85262362.19685262Warin Megan1049090MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780831503321Abject relations3694854UNINA