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Abject Relations
Price: $25.95
Subtitle: Everyday Worlds of
Anorexia
Author:
Megan Warin
Subject: Anthropology,
Health and Medicine
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4690-2
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4689-6
Pages: 280 pages
Publication Date:
November 2009
Series:
Studies
in Medical Anthropology
Praise for Abject Relations
"Warin has taken the
topic of anorexia, which many of us feel that we know something about,
and brilliantly cast a whole new light on it. Through vivid ethnography
and evocative prose, she ensures that you won’t think about anorexia or
those affected by it in quite the same way ever again."—C.
H. Browner, UCLA School of Medicine
"An intensive, wide-ranging
study, the author investigates the meanings of anorexia and the
everyday lives of those who suffer from it. Warin offers a brilliant
study that departs from conventional psychotherapeutic perspectives and
places anorexia in an intriguing sociocultural context. Highly
recommended."—Choice, April
2010
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.
About the Author:
Megan Warin is a social anthropologist who has
worked in psychiatry, gender studies, and public health at various
institutions, including Durham University, the University of Adelaide,
and Flinders University of South Australia.
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