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The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse
ISBN-13:
9780791474624
ISBN-10:
0791474623
Author:
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Format:
Paperback
142 pages
Category:
Depression
,
Mental Health
,
Social Sciences
,
Feminist Theory
,
Women's Studies
,
Sociology
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ISBN-13:
9780791474624
ISBN-10:
0791474623
Author:
Publication date:
2008
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Format:
Paperback
142 pages
Category:
Depression
,
Mental Health
,
Social Sciences
,
Feminist Theory
,
Women's Studies
,
Sociology
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Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.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 of the female self. Paula Saukko analyzes the personal and political implications of discourses on the anorexic self in multiple contexts, including her own experience of being diagnosed anorexic; psychiatrist Hilde Bruch’s postwar research on anorexia; and media coverage of Karen Carpenter, Princess Diana, and other women with eating disorders. Saukko traces the history of the discourses from postwar idealization of masculine autonomy to postindustrial valorization of feminine flexibility, and also explores their politically progressive and psychologically healing―as well as sexist and humiliating―dimensions. Drawing on narrative therapy, dialogic theory, and multisited ethnography, The Anorexic Self cultivates a less judgmental and more self-reflexive way of relating to ourselves, others, and societies in which we live.
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