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Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center - Body, Commodity, Text Helen Gremillion
Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center - Body, Commodity, Text
Helen Gremillion
Challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. This title reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia since the 1970s.
304 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 22, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780822331209 |
| Publishers | Duke University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 146 × 235 × 19 mm · 408 g |