Abject Relations Everyday Worlds of Anorexia

Name: Abject Relations Everyday Worlds of Anorexia
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ISBN: 9780813546902

ISBN-10: 0813546907

ISBN-13: 9780813546902

Edition: 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Megan Warin

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Abject Relationspresents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Participants describe difficulties with social relatedness, not being at home in their body, and feeling disgusting and worthless. For them, anorexia becomes a seductive and empowering practice that cleanses bodies of shame and guilt, becomes a friend and support, and allows them to forge new social relations.Unraveling anorexia’s complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Steering a Course between Fields



Knowing through the Body



The Complexities of Being Anorexic



Abject Relations with Food



"Me and My Disgusting Body"



Be-coming Clean



Reimagining Anaorexia


Notes


References


Index