The Spirituality of Anorexia: A Goddess Feminist Thealogy

ISBN-13: 9780367589578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Emma White

Opis

This book develops a spirituality of anorexia by suggesting that these eating disorders are physical symptoms of the general repression of feminine nature in our culture. Furthermore, it puts forward Goddess feminism as a framework for a healing therapeutic model to address anorexia and more broadly, the "slender ideal" touted by society.

Spis treści

Introduction  1 Anorexia Nervosa  2 The Female Body as Mediated by Society  3 The Female Body as a Politically Mediated Form  4 The Female Body as a Historically Mediated Form  5 The Female Body as a Thealogically Mediated Form;  Conclusion: The Spirituality of Anorexia

O autorze

Emma White holds a PhD from the University of Winchester, UK. Her research focuses on the spirituality of gender and embodiment, particularly regarding eating disorders. Her article titled 'Starved by Society: An Examination of Judith Butler’s Gender Performance and Society’s Slender Ideal' has been published in Feminist Theology.