The anorexic self
Subtitle: a personal, political analysis of a diagnostic discourse
By: Paula Saukko.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780791474617; 9780791474624
Subjects: Anorexia nervosa -- Social aspects; Feminist theory; Discourse analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-128) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: interrogating the anorexic self; title: Rereading the stories that became me: an autoethnography; title: Fat boys and goody girls: Hilde Bruch's work on eating disorders and the American ideal of freedom; title: From autonomy to flexibility: news discourses on Karen Carpenter and Princess Diana; title: Voices and discourses: layering interviews on eating disorders; title: From time-based diagnosis to space-based critical reflection.