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Feeding anorexia : gender and power at a treatment center / Helen Gremillion.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gremillion, Helen, 1965-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Body, commodity, text.
- Body, commodity, text
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anorexia nervosa--Social aspects.
- Anorexia nervosa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking study of anorexia treatment that shows how the treatment often makes the diesease worse.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064653
- 9781283064651
- 1283064650
- 9780822385011
- 0822385015
- OCLC:
- 191855656
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