Family, Culture, and Self in the Development of Eating Disorders

ISBN-13: 9780367874889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Susan Haworth-Hoeppner

Opis

This book examines anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as social processes, drawing on interviews with white, middle-class women that reveal the influence of family and cultural messages regarding thinness. It considers the agency these women use to cope with life stressors and the meaning they attach to eating disorders.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. The Cultural Milieu of Physical Attractiveness

2.  Anorexia (and Bulimia): What the Research Reveals

3.  Theorizing Anorexia (and Bulimia)

4. Anorexic (and Bulimic) Families: Perfect and Overprotective

5.  Anorexic (and Bulimic) Families: Chaotic and Other Familial Dynamics

6.  Anorexia (Bulimia) and the Individual

7. Eating Disorders: A Sociological Conclusion

8. Appendix I

O autorze

Susan Haworth-Hoeppner is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Aquinas College, USA.