Abject relations : everyday worlds of anorexia / Megan Warin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warin, Megan.

Series:

Studies in medical anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anorexia nervosa.

Anorexia nervosa--Patients--Psychology.

Anorexia nervosa--Social aspects.

Anorexia Nervosa--psychology.

Anorexia nervosa--Patients.

Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Anorexia Nervosa--psychology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]

Summary:

Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia nervosa, 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 constructs 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. It provides new ways of thinking that may have implications for future treatment regimes.

Contents:

Steering a course between fields

Knowing through the body

The complexities of being anorexic

Abject relations with food

"Me and my disgusting body"

Be-coming clean

Reimagining anorexia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813546896

0813546893

9780813546902

0813546907

OCLC:

312728749

Publisher Number:

99939415166