Feeding anorexia: gender and power at a treatment center
Auteur :
Gremillion, Helen
Éditeur :
Duke University Press
ISBN :
9780822331209
Date de publication :
22 août 2003
Dimensions :
23,5 x 14,6 cm
Poids :
408 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.