Hungry for meaning : discourses of the anorexic body

This thesis takes a critical analytic approach to contemporary discourses of anorexia. Unlike much feminist literature on eating disorders, its emphasis is metatheoretical: rather than taking the anorexic body itself as object of enquiry, the thesis focuses on the effects of theory about anorexia. I...

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Main Author: Brian, Josephine
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.645614