| Description |
vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Based on papers presented at a conference held at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex. in 1991. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Respect for bodies / Judith Andre -- Eating disorders in survivors of multimodal childhood abuse / Jean M. Goodwin and Reina Attias -- The good woman : asceticism and responsibility from the perspectives of battered women / Allison M. Moore -- Textual harassment : desire and the female body / Margaret R. Miles -- The body as a historical category : science and imagination, 1660-1760 / Estelle Cohen -- The social construction of premenstrual syndrome : a case study of scientific discourse as cultural contestation / Mary Brown Parlee -- Differential prohibition, scientific discourse, and anorexiant stimulants / Arthur P. Leccese. |
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Eating disorders, female psychology, and developmental disturbances / Janet de Groot -- Textual bodies : narratives of denial and desire in Studies on hysteria / Sara van den Berg -- Flannery O'Connor and the celebration of embodiment / William F. Monroe -- The beauty of the beast : male body imagery in anthropological perspective / David D. Gilmore -- Model women / Mary G. Winkler. |
| Subject |
Body image -- Social aspects.
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Control (Psychology)
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Eating disorders.
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Asceticism.
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| Added Author |
Winkler, Mary G.
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Cole, Letha B., 1951-
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| ISBN |
0300056281 (alk. paper) |
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