{"product_id":"feeding-anorexia-9780822331209","title":"Feeding Anorexia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenges 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Helen Gremillion has presented an intellectual tour de force in this book. She has taken one of the most contentious and resistant expressions of women's and girls' subjectivity, anorexia, and provided us with a dynamic social and political framework by which to understand its perplexing operations.”—Elizabeth Grosz, author of \u003ci\u003eVolatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Many have sensed that anorexia makes visible in some way pathologies that are particular to liberal consumer society, but few have grasped its nature and significance as acutely as Helen Gremillion. Her account is as compelling as it is compassionate.”—Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e“This is a wonderful, beautifully written, intelligent account of anorexia nervosa—and I say that as someone in feminist theory, women’s studies, and medical discourse analysis who had hoped she would go to her grave without ever having to read another word about anorexia nervosa. This really \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e a fresh interpretation, and the ethnographic material is stunning, dramatic, and described with precision, sophistication, and telling novelistic detail.”—Paula A. Treichler, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Time after time in my conversations with hospital patients I was bewildered when they informed me 'I became more anorexic for the doctors!' and when their mothers told me 'They said I shouldn't love my daughter so much!'\u003ci\u003e Feeding Anorexia\u003c\/i\u003e helps us all to comprehend such unintended consequences of mainstream treatments. It should lead to the reconsideration of anorexia itself and its treatment by professionals such as myself.\"—David Epston, coauthor of\u003ci\u003e Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia\/Bulimia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNarrative Means to Therapeutic Ends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Prologue xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: In Fitness and in Health 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Crafting Resourceful Bodies and Achieving Identities 43\u003cbr\u003e 2. Minimal Mothers and Psychiatric Discourse about the Family 73\u003cbr\u003e 3. Hierarchy, Power, and Gender in the \"Therapeutic Family\" 119\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Typical Parents Are Not 'Borderline'\": Embedded Constructs of Race, Ethnicity, and Class 157\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: A Narrative Approach to Anorexia 193\u003cbr\u003e Notes 211\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 247\u003cbr\u003e Index 271","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406032838999,"sku":"9780822331209","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feeding-anorexia-9780822331209","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}