- Taschenbuch: 299 Seiten
- Verlag: Lang, Peter Frankfurt; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (April 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 3631506198
- ISBN-13: 978-3631506196
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Contents: Eating Disorders and their Causes - Perspectives on Literary Accounts of Eating Disorders - Jenefer Shute's Life Size: A Socially Critical and Confessional Account of an Anorectic's Hospitalization - Stephanie Grant's The Passion of Alice: An Ironic Take on the Atmosphere of Coerced Confession at an Eating Disorder Clinic - Marya Hornbacher's Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia: The Apotheosis of Confession.
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Reading Eating Disorders uses literary texts as a key to open the door of American culture. Novels and poems on disordered eating reveal America's bulimic relationship to food and the tendency to punish individuals - particularly women and the poor - for not being slender. These texts partake of the confessional ethos in American public culture - the need to testify to and hear about intimate physical details. Tracing the history of eating disorders and Western culture's idealization of thinness with reference to canonical literary works such as Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1859) and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747-8), the author illustrates anorexia, bulimia, and the binge-eating disorder using contemporary accounts of these disorders. A cultural studies approach to literature is taken to describe how writings on eating disorders reveal the political and economic world out of which they are written.
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Contents
Introduction 1
Part I
I Eating Disorders and their Causes 21
1.1) The History of Anorexia and the Cult of Thinness 23
1.2) Bulimia Nervosa and its History as Illustrated in Literature 62
1.3) The Binge-Eating Disorder 75
1.4) Sub-clinical Eating Disorders 83
1.5) Why Has the Incidence of Eating Disorders Increased? 89
1.5.1) Physiological Explanations 89
1.5.2) Psychological Theories 91
1.5.3) Eating Disorders as Cultural Ills 103
II Perspectives on Literary Accounts of Eating Disorders 111
2.1) Reading Literature within its Cultural Context 111
2.2) Metaphors of Hunger, Society, and Literature:
Maud Ellmann's The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment
and Leslie Heywood's Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture 118
2.3) Writings about Starvation and Gorging as Confessions 127
Part II
III Jenefer Shute's Life-Size: A Socially Critical and Confessional Account of an Anorectic's Hospitalization 147
3.1) The Makings of an Anorectic 151
Media
Thinness, Wealth, and Status
Influence of Male Condemnation on Josie's Anorexia
Barbie: Icon of Idealized Womanhood
3.2) Confessional Aspects of Life-Size 158
Josie's Distorted Sense of Self
Searching for Selfhood in Mirrors and Measurements
Josie's Distorted Sense of Other People's Bodies and Food
Testifying in an Enclosed Space
Aesthetic Qualities
3.3) Comparing Life-Size to Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: Confessional and Anti-Confessional Treatments of Disordered Eating 179
IV Stephanie Grant's The Passion of Alice: An Ironic Take on the Atmosphere of Coerced Confession in an Eating Disorder Clinic 189
4.1) The Passion of Alice's Critique of American Culture 190
Changes in Tone to Reflect Alterations in Consciousness
4.2) The Anorexic Mindset and the Experience of Passion 204
4.3) Institutionalized Confession: Secrets of the Eating Disordered 209
V Marya Hornbacher's Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia: The Apotheosis of Confession 221
5.1) Wasted as the Apotheosis of Confessional Literature 229
5.2) Cultural Criticism or How-to Guide for Bulimia 250
5.3) The Demonization of Bulimia 263
Conclusion: America Confesses its Fear of Fat and Food 271
Bibliography 283
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