Feeding Anorexia
Subtitle: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780822331339
Subjects: Cultural studies; Eating disorders; Eating disorders & therapy; Women's studies; Social aspects; Psychology; Psychopathology - Eating Disorders; Anthropology/Ethnography; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Medicine & Health; Anorexia nervosa
First sentence: A number of feminist scholars and therapists have argued that anorexia is an important "case study" for examining problems with the embodiment of feminine identity in the contemporary United States.