This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious. Anorexia attempts to resist both these constructions in the creation of a closed, desireless body. Since anorexic women resist the power of collective ideologies their resistance cannot work - the closed body becomes its own prison.
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masculine subject acts, anorexic ritual, anorexic process, cosmetic exterior, anorexic woman, anorexic control, anorexic women, anorexic experience, feminine appetite, carnival imagery, anorexic body, anorexic symptom, adult female body, anorexic girl, psychiatric ideology, feminine body, carnival culture, spermatic economy, social powerlessness, feminine desire, feudal culture, feminist explanations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The term 'anorexia nervosa' was coined in 1873 by an English physician, William Gull. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
masculine subject acts, anorexic ritual, anorexic process, cosmetic exterior, anorexic woman, anorexic control, anorexic women, anorexic experience, feminine appetite, carnival imagery, anorexic body, anorexic symptom, adult female body, anorexic girl, psychiatric ideology, feminine body, carnival culture, spermatic economy, social powerlessness, feminine desire, feudal culture, feminist explanations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hilde Bruch, Marilyn Lawrence, Kate Millett, Susie Orbach, Mary Douglas, Robert Gray, Black Fashion Model, Melanie Klein, Middle Ages, Sheila Macleod New!
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- Sociology of Food and Eating: Essays on the Sociological Significance of Food (Gower International Library of Research & Practice) by Anne Murcott on 5 pages
- Medieval Women (Canto) by Eileen Power on 4 pages
- The Anorexic Experience (The Women's Press Handbook Series) by Marilyn Lawrence on 4 pages
- Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach on 4 pages
- Investigating Sexual Assault (Scottish Office social research studies) by Scottish Office on page 169, page 170, and Back Matter
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- Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture by Leslie Heywood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Anna Krugovoy Silver in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Limits of Medicine by Andrew Stark in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality by Gail Weiss in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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