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Starving for salvation : the spiritual dimensions of eating problems among American girls and women /

Presently, doctors and psychiatrists are professing their inability to develop theoretical approaches that lead to effective clinical methods to help women suffering from eating disorders. Michelle Lelwica puts forward a hypothesis that has both theoretical and clinical implications. She identifies...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lelwica, Michelle Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Bodies of evidence, bodies of knowledge : contemporary approaches, historical perspectives, new directions
  • The good, the true, and the beautiful female body : popular icons of womanhood and the salvation myth of female slenderness
  • Losing their way to salvation : popular rituals of womanhood and the saving promises of culture lite
  • Universes of meaning, worlds of pain : the struggles of anorexic and bulimic girls and women
  • A different kind of salvation : cultivating alternative senses, practices, and visions.