The Spirituality of Anorexia: A Goddess Feminist Thealogy

by Emma White

Widely popularized images of unobtainable and damaging feminine ideals can be a cause of profound disjunction between women and their bodies. A consequence of this dissonance is an embodied performance of these ideals with the potential development of disordered eating practices, such as anorexia nervosa. This book develops a spirituality of anorexia by suggesting that these eating disorders are physical symptoms of the general repression of feminine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367589575
• ISBN13: 9780367589578
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"