Abject relations [[electronic resource] ] : everyday worlds of anorexia / / Megan Warin

• Autore: Warin Megan
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/85262; 362.19685262
• Soggetto topico: Anorexia nervosa; Anorexia nervosa - Patients - Psychology; Anorexia nervosa - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: social 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Author
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Abject relations
• ISBN: 1-280-49344-5; 9786613588678; 0-8135-4821-7; 9780831548210
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780831503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in medical anthropology.