Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center

by Helen Gremillion

Book Overview

Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion 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 in the United States since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331209
• ISBN13: 9780822331209
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.3"