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Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse by Lisa Hodge (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse about?

This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women’s distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain discourses and practices, rather than a reaction triggered by child sexual abuse. Guided by a contemporary feminist framework and Mikhail Bakhtin’s sociological linguistics, to substantiate the argument, women’s own poetry and drawings are used as evidence to develop, support and supplement research findings. The book establishes that an eating disorder is ‘an understandable response’ to sexual trauma and shifts the focus away from ‘a damaged personality’. Even more importantly, it demonstrates that women with eating disorders are using their bodies as a form of resistance to express silenced traumas that remain in the silenced female body. This is an active way of making sense of experiences of child sexual abuse. Erscheinungsdatum: 11.03.2021

Who reads Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse?

Author

Lisa Hodge (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9789813362956

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Sociology