Hunger Strike

The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for our Age

AvSusie Orbach

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It is also about control; by conquering feelings of hunger, the anorectic woman aspires to conquer her emotional feelings as well. For Orbach, the stru

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-27
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367324902

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Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Ätstörningar inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. She co-founded the Women's Therapy Centre and Antidote, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' (1978), 'Hunger Strike' (1986), 'The Impossibility of Sex' (1999), and 'On Eating' (2002).

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword -- Introduction to the 1986 Edition -- Introduction to the 1993 Edition -- Part I -- Anorexia: Metaphor for our Time -- Situating Anorexia -- Starving Amidst Plenty -- The Breeding of Body Insecurity -- Hunger Strike -- Part II -- Towards a Model of Self-help: Themes to be Considered and Tackled -- Bridging the Chasm -- Food: From Poison to Palatable -- Focusing on the Body: The Corporeal Sense of Self -- Behind the Defence -- Medical Issues -- Afterword