Anorexic Bodies

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Anorexic Bodies is written by Morag MacSween and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136103406 (ISBN 10) and 9781136103407 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious. Anorexia attempts to resist both these constructions in the creation of a closed, desireless body. Since anorexic women resist the power of collective ideologies their resistance cannot work - the closed body becomes its own prison.