Starving in the silences, an exploration of anorexia nervosa, Matra Robertson
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Starving in the silences, an exploration of anorexia nervosa, Matra Robertson
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-92) and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Starving in the silences
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bibliography
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25787934
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Matra Robertson
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an exploration of anorexia nervosa
Table Of Contents
1. Cultural meanings of eating and food. Culture, food and diet. Food as language. Food taboos. Eating the superior food. Gender differences in diet. Anorexia as a folk term -- 2. Shaping conceptions of non-eating. The medical gaze and the construction of subjectivity. The development of medical discourse on anorexia nervosa. From body to mind: mental explanations of the cause of anorexia nervosa. Current medical definitions of anorexia nervosa -- 3. Feminist interpretations of anorexia nervosa. The medicalisation of women's bodies. Feminist theory and anorexia nervosa -- 4. Theorising subjectivity. Language as a means of conceptualising the self. Lacan and subjectivity. French feminists and Lacan -- 5. Thinking about femininity. Self-starvation and meaning. Mapping femininity
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