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Holy Anorexia - Softcover

Bell, Rudolph M.

 
9780226042053: Holy Anorexia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226042057 ISBN 13: 9780226042053
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes.

"Everyone interested in anorexia nervosa . . . should skim this book or study it. It will make you realize how dependent upon culture the definition of disease is. I will never look at an anorexic patient in the same way again."—Howard Spiro, M.D., Gastroenterology

"[This] book is a first-class social history and is well-documented both in its historical and scientific portions."—Vern L. Bullough, American Historical Review

"A significant contribution to revisionist history, which re-examines events in light of feminist thought. . . . Bell is particularly skillful in describing behavior within its time and culture, which would be bizarre by today's norms, without reducing it to the pathological."—Mary Lassance Parthun, Toronto Globe and Mail

"Bell is both enlightened and convincing. His book is impressively researched, easy to read, and utterly fascinating."—Sheila MacLeod, New Statesman

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rudolph M. Bell, professor of history at Rutgers University, is the author of a number of books in Italian history, among them Fate and Honor, Family and Village: Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800, Holy Anorexia, How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians, and The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint (with Cristina Mazzoni), all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Both contemporary anorexics and 'holy anorexics' seek autonomy in culturally defined ideal states: energetic slenderness today, spiritual purity in the Middle Ages.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226042057
ISBN 13 
9780226042053
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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