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- ISBN
- 9780814787847
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814787843
ISBN-13
9780814787847
eBay Product ID (ePID)
895549
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls : the History of Self-Starvation
Subject
Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, History
Publication Year
1994
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
94-002859
Reviews
"A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies." - Nature ,, A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies., "A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies." - Nature, "A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies." -Nature
Dewey Edition
20
eBook Format
Open Ebook
Dewey Decimal
616.85/262/09
Original Language
DUT,GER
Synopsis
With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on societal pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hit the stands, obsession with body and fasting rituals plagued girls and women. But is anorexia as we know it today new? In an engaging and thorough account of the history of self starvation in the western world, Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth explore this question. Drawing on a myriad of intriguing examples, the authors show how self-inflicted starvation has changed its tone over the centuries and is inextricably enmeshed in socio-cultural contexts. Consider how drastically the meaning of fasting has mutated in the Christian western world: that in the twelfth century when divine miracles were accepted realities, an emaciated girl would have been seen as holy and touched by God. That same girl would have been considered possessed and cursed by Satan in the sixteenth century when popular belief in witches was on the rise. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls traces the history of starvation from its religious roots, bound up in rigid asceticism, to its economic ties, in the form of living skeletons like shadow Harry who toured freak shows displaying his protruding ribs for money, to the Victorian era, where modern sexual and gender stereotypes find their origin. The book is the result of exhaustive research, covering Europe and the United States and spanning the early centuries of Christianity to the present day. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls will interest readers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, women's studies, religious and social history, and cultural studies.
LC Classification Number
RC552.A5V36313 1994
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