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Feeding anorexia : gender and power at a treatment center / Helen Gremillion.
Van Pelt Library RC552.A5 G746 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gremillion, Helen, 1965-
- Series:
- Body, commodity, text
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anorexia nervosa--Social aspects.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 277 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: In fitness and in health
- Crafting resourceful bodies and achieving identities
- Minimal mothers and psychiatric discourse about the family
- Hierarchy, power, and gender in the "therapeutic family"
- "Typical patients are not 'borderline'": embedded constructs of race, ethnicity, and class.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822331330
- 0822331209
- OCLC:
- 51203818
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