1 Introduction
2 Steering a Course Between Fields
3 Knowing Through the Body
4 'True Anas' and Outside Anorexics
5 Abject Relations with Food
6 'Me and My Disgusting Body'
7 Be-coming Clean
8 Conclusions and Future Directions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Megan Warin is a social anthropologist who has worked in psychiatry, gender studies, and public health at various institutions, including Durham University, the University of Adelaide, and Flinders University of South Australia.
"An intensive, wide-ranging study, the author investigates the
meanings of anorexia and the everyday lives of those who suffer
from it. Warin offers a brilliant study that departs from
conventional psychotherapeutic perspectives and places anorexia in
an intriguing sociocultural context. Highly recommended."
*Choice*
"Warin's book is an experientially grounded, theoretically
sophisticated, and accessible account of anorexia that is unique
and compelling."
*Signs*
"Anthropologist Megan Warin combines rich multi-sited ethnographic
research on anorexic women's lived experiences with a sophisticated
theoretical approach based on concepts of abjection and relatedness
to offer fascinating and original insights into anorexia
nervosa."
*author of The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and
Power*
"Warin has taken the topic of anorexia, which many of us feel that
we know something about, and brilliantly cast a whole new light on
it. Through vivid ethnography and evocative prose, she ensures that
you won't think about anorexia or those affected by it in quite the
same way ever again."
*UCLA School of Medicine*
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