Abject relations : everyday worlds of anorexia /
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| Author / Creator: | Warin, Megan. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010. |
| Description: | xiii, 229 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in medical anthropology Studies in medical anthropology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7898896 |
| 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. <p>Unraveling anorexia's complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical perspective rooted in a socio-cultural context of bodies and gender. Abject Relations departs from conventional psychotherapy approaches and offers a different "logic," one that involves the shifting forces of power, disgust, and desire and provides new ways of thinking that may have implications for future treatment regimes.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 229 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813546896 0813546893 9780813546902 0813546907 |
