Abject Relations : : Everyday Worlds of Anorexia / / Megan Warin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Warin, Megan,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813548210; 9783110688610
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813548210
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Megan Warin.

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.