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- Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Participants describe difficulties with social relatedness, not being at home in their body, and feeling disgusting and worthless. For them, anorexia becomes a seductive and empowering practice that cleanses bodies of shame and guilt, becomes a friend and support, and allows them to forge new social relations.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- 2. Steering a Course between Fields
- pp. 21-50
- 3. Knowing through the Body
- pp. 51-69
- 5. Abject Relations with Food
- pp. 99-127
- 6. “Me and My Disgusting Body”
- pp. 128-151
- 7. Be-coming Clean
- pp. 152-178
- 8. Reimagining Anorexia
- pp. 179-190
- References
- pp. 209-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813548210
Related ISBN(s)
9780813546896
MARC Record
OCLC
781635125
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No