Abject Relations

Everyday Worlds of Anorexia

von Megan Warin

248 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Rutgers University Press
• ISBN: 9780813546896
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.10.2009
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of Rutgers Univ Press