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Vandereycken, Walter / Vandereycken, W. / Jayadeva:
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation - gebrauchtes Buch

ISBN: 9780814787847

ID: 3444867

With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on societal pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hit the stands, obsession with body and fasting rituals plagued girls and women. But is anorexia as we know it today new? In an engaging and thorough account of the history of self starvation in the western world, Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth explore this question. Drawing on a myriad of intriguing examples, the authors show how self-inflicted starvation has changed its tone over the centuries and is inextricably enmeshed in socio-cultural contexts. Consider how drastically the meaning of fasting has mutated in the Christian western world: that in the twelfth century when divine miracles were accepted realities, an emaciated girl would have been seen as holy and touched by God. That same girl would have been considered possessed and cursed by Satan in the sixteenth century when popular belief in witches was on the rise. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls traces the history of starvation from its religious roots, bound up in rigid asceticism, to its economic ties, in the form of living skeletons like shadow Harry who toured freak shows displaying his protruding ribs for money, to the Victorian era, where modern sexual and gender stereotypes find their origin. The book is the result of exhaustive research, covering Europe and the United States and spanning the early centuries of Christianity to the present day. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls will interest readers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, women's studies, religious and social history, and cultural studies. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation Vandereycken, Walter / Vandereycken, W. / Jayadeva, New York University Press

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Walter Vandereycken; Ron Van Deth:
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls : The History of Self-Starvation - gebrauchtes Buch

ISBN: 0814787843

ID: 4419547

With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on societal pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hit the stands, obsession with body and fasting rituals plagued girls and women. But is anorexia as we know it today new? In an engaging and thorough account of the history of self starvation in the western world, Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth explore this question. Drawing on a myriad of intriguing examples, the authors show how self-inflicted starvation has changed its tone over the centuries and is inextricably enmeshed in socio-cultural contexts. Consider how drastically the meaning of fasting has mutated in the Christian western world: that in the twelfth century when divine miracles were accepted realities, an emaciated girl would have been seen as holy and touched by God. That same girl would have been considered possessed and cursed by Satan in the sixteenth century when popular belief in witches was on the rise. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls traces the history of starvation from its religious roots, bound up in rigid asceticism, to its economic ties, in the form of living skeletons like shadow Harry who toured freak shows addiction and recovery,drug dependency,eating disorders,health fitness and dieting,history,humanities,medical,medical books,mental health,philosophy Eating Disorders, New York University Press

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Walter Vandereycken, Ron Van Deth:
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: the History of Self-Starvation: the History of Self-Starvation - Taschenbuch

1994, ISBN: 9780814787847

ID: 14788048736

Trade paperback, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!, [PU: New York University Press]

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Vandereycken, W.; Van Deth, Ron:
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation - Taschenbuch

ISBN: 0814787843

ID: 22529003788

[EAN: 9780814787847], Neubuch, [PU: NYU Press], 0814787843 New Condition.

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Vandereycken, W.; Van Deth, Ron:
From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation - Taschenbuch

ISBN: 9780814787847

ID: 1022987565

NYU Press. PAPERBACK. 0814787843 Like New Condition. . Fine., NYU Press