Abject relations : everyday worlds of anorexia / / Megan Warin
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| Autore: |
Warin Megan
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| Titolo: |
Abject relations : everyday worlds of anorexia / / Megan Warin
|
| Pubblicazione: | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| 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.: | 9910809449003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in medical anthropology.