Title: "Shall she famish then?"
Description: "Nancy Gutierrez's exploration of female food refusal during the early modern period contributes to the ongoing conversation about female subjectivity and agency in a number of ways. She joins such scholars as Gail Kern Paster, Jonathan Sawday, and Michael Schoenfeldt, who locate early modern ideas of selfhood in the age's understanding of the body and bodily functions, that is, the recognition that behavior and feelings are a result of the internal workings of the body." "This study is neither a history nor a survey of the anorexic female body in early modern England, but rather individual yet related discussions in which the starved female body is seen to signify certain (un)expressed tensions within the culture."--Jacket.
Subjects: Eating disorders, Eating disorders in literature, English literature, Fasting, Food habits in literature, Food in literature, History, History and criticism, Hunger strikes, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Fasting, Psychological aspects of Hunger strikes, Sex role in literature, Women in literature, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Medicine in literature, Gender identity, Medicine, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Psychology, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, Women, Troubles du comportement alimentaire dans la littérature, Troubles du comportement alimentaire, Histoire, Grèves de la faim, Aspect psychologique, Jeûne, Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Femmes dans la littérature, Aliments dans la littérature, Médecine dans la littérature, Identité sexuelle, Médecine, Sex role, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Early modern, Essstörung, Literatur, Anorexia nervosa, Vrouwen, Letterkunde, Engels
Places: England
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700