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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lelwica, Michelle Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Eating disorders > Patients > Religious life.
Women > Health and hygiene > Religious aspects.
Religion.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Religion
Women's Health
Troubles du comportement alimentaire > Patients > Vie religieuse.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
religion (discipline)
SELF-HELP > Eating Disorders.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Eating Disorders.
Women > Health and hygiene
Eating disorders > Patients > Religious life
Essstörung
Spiritualität
Wert
Eetstoornissen.
Vrouwen.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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