Abject Relations : Everyday Worlds of Anorexia /
Abject Relations presents 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 bas...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2009]
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Colección: | Studies in Medical Anthropology
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Steering a Course between Fields
- 3. Knowing through the Body
- 4. The Complexities of Being Anorexic
- 5. Abject Relations with Food
- 6. "Me and My Disgusting Body"
- 7. Be-coming Clean
- 8. Reimagining Anorexia
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author