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The good body : asceticism in contemporary culture.
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0300056281ISBN 13: 9780300056280
Anbieter: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Niederlande
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Zustand: very good. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1994. Hardcover. Dustjacket. VI,247 pp. Index. Based on the contributions of the conference held at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas, Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex. in 1991. Condition: very good and clean copy. - What are the reasons for the current epidemic of eating disorders, the increasing obsession with exercise, diet, and cosmetic surgery, the constant exhortations to look and feel good? This engrossing book examines our concern with the good body from a wide variety of perspectives, putting it in the contexts of contemporary culture and of ancient ascetic practices of self-denial. A range of experts-psychiatrists, psychologists, literary scholars, historians, a philosopher, a theologian, an anthropologist, and the former director of a center for abused women-join together to discuss why control of our bodies has become so important in contemporary culture and why society must provide its members with more positive ways to define and empower themselves. The authors discuss issues that shed light on current attitudes toward the body, such as the effects of sexual victimization on body image, a report defining the behavior of battered women as a form of maladaptive self-denial, the influence of science on predominant notions of the good body (for example, the biomedical version of premenstrual syndrome), the legal restrictions on diet pills and supplements, Flannery O'Connor's celebration of embodiment in her final novel, Parker's Back, the impact of cultural ideals of masculine beauty on men, and much more. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780300056280. Keywords : PSYCHOLOGY,
