ABSTRACT
This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious. Anorexia attempts to resist both these constructions in the creation of a closed, desireless body. Since anorexic women resist the power of collective ideologies their resistance cannot work - the closed body becomes its own prison.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part I|78 pages
Explaining anorexia
part II|22 pages
Anorexic meanings
chapter Chapter 4|20 pages
Anorexic meanings
part III|144 pages
The anorexic body