From fasting saints to anorexic girls : the history of self-starvation / Walter Vandereycken & Ron van Deth.
"With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on social 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...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a From fasting saints to anorexic girls : |b the history of self-starvation / |c Walter Vandereycken & Ron van Deth. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Washington Square, N.Y. : |b New York University Press, |c 1994. | |
| 300 | |a viii, 296 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a This translation is based on the German edition, which was an adapted and shortened version of the original Dutch. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-287) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A mirror of time and culture. A current view of anorexia nervosa ; Anorexia nervosa as a culture-bound syndrome ; Psychological history and historical psychology ; The invention of syndromes -- Holy fasts. Supernatural power ; Penance and asceticism ; Church's rules on fasting ; The asceticism of the desert fathers ; Late mediaeval ascetics and mystics ; Modern fasting saints -- Possession and witchcraft. Fasting and temptation by the devil ; Worn out and bewitched ; Exorcism as treatment ; From possession to patienthood ; Anorexia nervosa and exorcism -- Miraculous maidens. Self-starvation as a spectacle ; The miracle put to the test ; Margaretha Weiss: the miraculous maiden from Roed ; The alleged fasting of Barbara Kremers from Unna ; Elva Vliegen: the mendacious maiden from Meurs ; From miraculous maiden to hysterical patient -- Hunger artists and living skeletons. Thinness as entertainment ; Fasting for a living ; Heyday and decline of the art of fasting ; The art of fasting in literature -- Food abstinence: medical mystery and therapy. A miracle of God ; Miracle or natural phenomena? ; Living on air ; The beneficial effect of food abstinence -- Food abstinence and emaciation as signs of illness. Anorexia ; Atrophia nervosa or nervous consumption ; Hysteria ; Melancholia ; Love-sickness and chlorosis -- Who was the first to describe anorexia nervosa? Precursors of a 'new' illness ; Gull and Lasègue -- Self-starvation in the hands of the physicians. Characteristics of the 'new' illness ; Nervosa or hysterica? ; Psychasthenia and neurasthenia ; Ebb and flood of theories -- The Victorian roots of anorexia nervosa. The powerlessness of the 'ideal' family ; The growing-pains of puberty and adolescence ; The affliction of the 'new woman' ; Discovery of the forbidden sexuality ; Beauty as a 'weighty' task -- Morbid miracle or miraculous morbidity? Saints or patients? ; Anorexic artists ; The mysterious epidemic. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on social 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 a 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."--Jacket. | |
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