| Description |
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index. |
| Contents |
Bodies of evidence, bodies of knowledge : contemporary approaches, historical perspectives, new directions -- The good, the true, and the beautiful female body : popular icons of womanhood and the salvation myth of female slenderness -- Losing their way to salvation : popular rituals of womanhood and the saving promises of culture lite -- Universes of meaning, worlds of pain : the struggles of anorexic and bulimic girls and women -- A different kind of salvation : cultivating alternative senses, practices, and visions. |
| Summary |
Presently, doctors and psychiatrists are professing their inability to develop theoretical approaches that lead to effective clinical methods to help women suffering from eating disorders. Michelle Lelwica puts forward a hypothesis that has both theoretical and clinical implications. She identifies eating disorders as a specifically religious problem and contends that it can be addressed with religious resources. She argues that the remnants of religious legacies that have historically effaced the diversity and complexity of women's spiritual yearnings and struggles are alive and well under the guise of a host of "secular" practices, pictures and promises. Until these legacies are recognized, contested, and changed, she predicts, many girls and women will continue to turn to the symbolic and ritual resources most readily available to them - food and their bodies - in a passionate but precarious quest for freedom and fulfilment. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eating disorders -- Patients -- Religious life.
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Eating disorders -- Patients -- Religious life. |
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Eating disorders. |
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Religious aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene. |
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Feeding and Eating Disorders. |
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Religion. |
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Women's Health. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lelwica, Michelle Mary. Starving for salvation. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195127439 (DLC) 98050120 (OCoLC)40398065 |
| ISBN |
142376031X (electronic book) |
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9781423760313 (electronic book) |
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1280472014 |
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9781280472015 |
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9780195127430 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0195127439 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0195127439 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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