Feeding Anorexia
Subtitle: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Series: Body, Commodity, Text
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780822331209
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: This chapter explores the ways in which patients diagnosed with anorexia and the clinicians and staff who work with them construe bodies as resources for fitness and health.
Description: This is an in-depth study of a psychiatric programme for treating eating disorders that shows how such clinics reproduce discourses about health, gender and family that cause anorexia and thus fail to cure the patients.