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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic GIrls: The History of Self Starvation - library
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780814787830
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Psychology
- Publication Name
- From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls : the History of Self-Starvation
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Subject
- Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, General, History
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on societal pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hit the stands, obsession with body and fasting rituals plagued girls and women. But is anorexia as we know it today new? In an engaging and thorough account of the history of self starvation in the western world, Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth explore this question. Drawing on a myriad of intriguing examples, the authors show how self-inflicted starvation has changed its tone over the centuries and is inextricably enmeshed in socio-cultural contexts. Consider how drastically the meaning of fasting has mutated in the Christian western world: that in the twelfth century when divine miracles were accepted realities, an emaciated girl would have been seen as holy and touched by God. That same girl would have been considered possessed and cursed by Satan in the sixteenth century when popular belief in witches was on the rise. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls traces the history of starvation from its religious roots, bound up in rigid asceticism, to its economic ties, in the form of living skeletons like shadow Harry who toured freak shows displaying his protruding ribs for money, to the Victorian era, where modern sexual and gender stereotypes find their origin. The book is the result of exhaustive research, covering Europe and the United States and spanning the early centuries of Christianity to the present day. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls will interest readers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, women's studies, religious and social history, and cultural studies.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814787835
ISBN-13
9780814787830
eBay Product ID (ePID)
893698
Product Key Features
Publication Name
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls : the History of Self-Starvation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, General, History
Publication Year
1994
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
94-002859
Lc Classification Number
Rc552.A5v36313 1994
Reviews
"A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies." - Nature ,, A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies., "A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies." - Nature, "A valuable addition to attempts to elucidate a tragic problem...A well-researched work that shows how history and psychiatry may be allies." -Nature
Original Language
Dut,Ger
Copyright Date
1994
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
616.85/262/09
Dewey Edition
20
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