9780415028479-0415028477-Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

ISBN-13: 9780415028479
ISBN-10: 0415028477
Edition: 1
Author: Morag MacSween
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 280 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780415028479
ISBN-10: 0415028477
Edition: 1
Author: Morag MacSween
Publication date: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 280 pages

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Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa (ISBN-13: 9780415028479 and ISBN-10: 0415028477), written by authors Morag MacSween, was published by Routledge in 1995. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.36.

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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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