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The anorexic self : a personal, political analysis of a diagnostic discourse /
"Traditionally, women's eating disorders are thought to be strongly influenced by media images idealizing a normative thin female body. Taking a different approach, The Anorexic Self critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on anorexia that construct narrow and ideal notions o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: interrogating the anorexic self
- Rereading the stories that became me: an autoethnography
- Fat boys and goody girls: Hilde Bruch's work on eating disorders and the American ideal of freedom
- From autonomy to flexibility: news discourses on Karen Carpenter and Princess Diana
- Voices and discourses: layering interviews on eating disorders
- From time-based diagnosis to space-based critical reflection.