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Traditionally, women s eating disorders are thought to be strongly influenced by media images idealizing a normative thin female body. Taking a different approach, The Anorexic Self critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on anorexia that construct narrow and ideal notions of the female self. Paula Saukko analyzes the personal and political implications of discourses on the anorexic self in multiple contexts, including her own experience of being diagnosed anorexic; psychiatrist Hi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paula Saukko
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781435658639
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Medical, Mathematics, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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