Starving for salvation : the spiritual dimensions of eating problems among American girls and women / Michelle Mary Lelwica.
"In Starving for Salvation, Michelle Lelwica challenges traditional theories by introducing and exploring the spiritual dimensions of anorexia, bulimia, and related problems. Drawing on a range of sources that include previously published interviews with sufferers of eating disorders. Lelwica c...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Bodies of evidence, bodies of knowledge : contemporary approaches, historical perspectives, new directions
- The good, the true, and the beautiful female body : popular icons of womanhood and the salvation myth of female slenderness
- Losing their way to salvation : popular rituals of womanhood and the saving promises of culture lite
- Universes of meaning, worlds of pain : the struggles of anorexic and bulimic girls and women
- A different kind of salvation : cultivating alternative senses, practices, and visions.