Faith Born of Seduction : Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion / Jennifer L Manlowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manlowe, Jennifer L, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twelve-step programs--Religious aspects.

Twelve-step programs.

Christianity--Controversial literature.

Christianity.

Sexism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sexism.

Body image.

Eating disorders--United States--Etiology.

Eating disorders.

Women--Mental health--United States.

Women.

Incest--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Incest.

Adult child sexual abuse victims--United States--Religious life.

Adult child sexual abuse victims.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect? The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating disorders reveals an important, and so far unexamined, psychosocial phenomenon. Drawing from interviews with incest survivors whose sexual and religious backgrounds are intimately connected with their problematic relationship with food, Jennifer Manlowe here illuminates the connections between female body, weight, and appetite preoccupations.Manlowe offers social and psychological insights into the most common forms of female suffering—incest and body hatred. The volume is intended as a resource for professionals, advocates, friends of survivors, and most importantly, the survivor of incest herself as she attempts to understand the links of meaning in her mind between her incest experience and her subsequent eating disorder.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Who Are We?

2. A Horror beyond Tears: Reflections on a History of Abuse

3. A Pyrrhic Victory: Contemplating the Physical Cost of Surviving

4. Disenchanting Faith and the Female Body: Deconstructing Misogynous Themes in Christian Discourse

5. A Thinly Veiled Skein: Exploring Troublesome Connections among Incest, Eating Disorders, and Religious Discourse

6. Self-Help or Self-Harm? Analyzing the "Politics" of Twelve-Step Groups for Recovery

7. Summary of Key Findings

Appendix A. Sample Questionnaire (Voices)

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-216) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780814763148

0814763146

OCLC:

782878008