Bodily Discourses: When Students Write about Abuse and Eating Disorders

by Michelle Payne

At a northeastern university, a student turns in an essay for her writing course that uses her own experiences of being beaten by her boyfriend to argue for change in women's legal protection. Another student writes a research essay on child sexual abuse, describing her own abuse at the age of ten. In an advanced writing course, a student composes an essay on her addiction to hunger, her hospitalization, and her ultimate recovery from her obsession...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867094710
• ISBN13: 9780867094718
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary