Starving for salvation
Subtitle: the spiritual dimensions of eating problems among American girls and women
By: Michelle Mary Lelwica.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Eating disorders -- Patients -- Religious life; Women -- Health and hygiene -- Religious aspects
Description: "In Starving for Salvation, Michelle Lelwica challenges traditional theories by introducing and exploring the spiritual dimensions of anorexia, bulimia, and related problems. Drawing on a range of sources that include previously published interviews with sufferers of eating disorders. Lelwica claims that girls and women starve, binge, and purge their bodies as a means of coping with the pain and injustice of their daily lives.

She provides an incisive analysis of contemporary American culture, arguing that our dominant social values and religious legacies produce feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction in girls and women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.