| Description |
vi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
11. The Beauty of the Beast: Male Body Imagery in Anthropological Perspective / David D. Gilmore -- 12. Model Women / Mary G. Winkler -- Afterword / Mary G. Winkler |
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Introduction / Letha B. Cole -- 1. Respect for Bodies / Judith Andre -- 2. Eating Disorders in Survivors of Multimodal Childhood Abuse / Jean M. Goodwin and Reina Attias -- 3. The Good Woman: Asceticism and Responsibility from the Perspectives of Battered Women / Allison M. Moore -- 4. Textual Harassment: Desire and the Female Body / Margaret R. Miles -- 5. The Body as a Historical Category: Science and Imagination, 1660-1760 / Estelle Cohen -- 6. The Social Construction of Premenstrual Syndrome: A Case Study of Scientific Discourse as Cultural Contestation / Mary Brown Parlee -- 7. Differential Prohibition, Scientific Discourse, and Anorexiant Stimulants / Arthur P. Leccese -- 8. Eating Disorders, Female Psychology, and Developmental Disturbances / Janet de Groot -- 9. Textual Bodies: Narratives of Denial and Desire in Studies on Hysteria / Sara van den Berg -- 10. Flannery O'Connor and the Celebration of Embodiment / William F. Monroe |
| Analysis |
Health Sociology |
| Notes |
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 |
| Subject |
Asceticism -- Congresses.
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Body image -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Body image -- Social aspects -- Congressgs
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Control (Psychology) -- Congresses.
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Eating disorders -- Congresses.
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Body Image.
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Feeding and Eating Disorders -- psychology.
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Social Control, Informal.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Cole, Letha B., 1951-
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Winkler, Mary G.
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| LC no. |
93048225 |
| ISBN |
0300056281 (alk. paper) |
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