Note:This thesis traces the development of women's subjectivity through anorexic discourse, in Doris Lessing's Martha Quest, Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Jenefer Shute's Life-Size. The first chapter draws from feminist philosophies and Foucauldian genealogies to construct a framework for discussing anorexia's relation to subjectivity. Here, I convey how social apparatuses that constitute and constrain women's bodies and female experience differ from women's attempts at self-constitution. The conflicts that arise from these differences are embodied in the anorexic's struggle for subjectivity. The second chapter is a literary genealogy of anorexia, where the three narratives demand such questions: what is she using her body to ...
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted b...
This thesis examines the development of an anorexic discourse in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften. ...
Anorexia and all eating disorders alike affect fundamental relationships between individuals and the...
Cultural studies and gender studies hold long-standing traditions for studying people with eating di...
International audienceThis study argues against a strictly medical approach to anorexia that takes t...
This thesis explores the use of self-representation as a medium for symbolic intervention into the ...
This thesis investigates how anorexia nervosa is constructed and deployed as a discursive social an...
Using a post-structualist, discourse analytic framework this study investigates constructions of 'an...
Anorexia nervosa is a ‘frequently lethal illness’ (Watson et al, 2019). Watson et al make this asser...
Anorexic narratives share the thesis that compulsive behaviours like eating disorders are determined...
This thesis attempts a sociological and feminist analysis of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia is an illnes...
Anorexic narratives share the thesis that compulsive behaviours like eating disorders are determined...
"Submitted as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy""May 201...
This thesis examines the transgenerational aspects of trauma, focusing on both the phenomenon of ano...
Theories of anorexia nervosa have mainly been dominated by psychiatry and concentrate upon its physi...
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted b...
This thesis examines the development of an anorexic discourse in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften. ...
Anorexia and all eating disorders alike affect fundamental relationships between individuals and the...
Cultural studies and gender studies hold long-standing traditions for studying people with eating di...
International audienceThis study argues against a strictly medical approach to anorexia that takes t...
This thesis explores the use of self-representation as a medium for symbolic intervention into the ...
This thesis investigates how anorexia nervosa is constructed and deployed as a discursive social an...
Using a post-structualist, discourse analytic framework this study investigates constructions of 'an...
Anorexia nervosa is a ‘frequently lethal illness’ (Watson et al, 2019). Watson et al make this asser...
Anorexic narratives share the thesis that compulsive behaviours like eating disorders are determined...
This thesis attempts a sociological and feminist analysis of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia is an illnes...
Anorexic narratives share the thesis that compulsive behaviours like eating disorders are determined...
"Submitted as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy""May 201...
This thesis examines the transgenerational aspects of trauma, focusing on both the phenomenon of ano...
Theories of anorexia nervosa have mainly been dominated by psychiatry and concentrate upon its physi...
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted b...
This thesis examines the development of an anorexic discourse in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften. ...
Anorexia and all eating disorders alike affect fundamental relationships between individuals and the...