Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
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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.
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1328789 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Rutgers University Press
- Published on: 2009-11-30
- Released on: 2009-10-28
- Original language:English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.86" h x5.91" w x.67" l,1.13 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 248 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
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