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In English
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Description:
Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Participants describe difficulties with social relatedness, not being at home in their body, and feeling disgusting and worthless. For them, anorexia becomes a seductive and empowering practice that cleanses bodies of shame and guilt, becomes a friend and support, and allows them to forge new social relations. Unraveling anorexia's complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical perspective rooted in a socio-cultural context of bodies and gender. Abject Relations departs from conventional psychotherapy approaches and offers a different "logic," one that involves the shifting forces of power, disgust, and desire and provides new ways of thinking that may have implications for future treatment regimes
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Steering a Course between Fields -- 3. Knowing through the Body -- 4. The Complexities of Being Anorexic -- 5. Abject Relations with Food -- 6. “Me and My Disgusting Body” -- 7. Be-coming Clean -- 8. Reimagining Anorexia -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author