عنوان

Starving for salvation :

(Number (ISBN

0195127439

(Number (ISBN

1280472014

(Number (ISBN

142376031X

(Number (ISBN

9780195127430

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9781280472015

(Number (ISBN

9781423760313

Erroneous ISBN

0195127439

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b786479

Title Proper

Starving for salvation :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the spiritual dimensions of eating problems among American girls and women /

First Statement of Responsibility

Michelle Mary Lelwica.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1999.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 210 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.

Text of Note

Bodies of evidence, bodies of knowledge : contemporary approaches, historical perspectives, new directions -- The good, the true, and the beautiful female body : popular icons of womanhood and the salvation myth of female slenderness -- Losing their way to salvation : popular rituals of womanhood and the saving promises of culture lite -- Universes of meaning, worlds of pain : the struggles of anorexic and bulimic girls and women -- A different kind of salvation : cultivating alternative senses, practices, and visions.

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Text of Note

Presently, doctors and psychiatrists are professing their inability to develop theoretical approaches that lead to effective clinical methods to help women suffering from eating disorders. Michelle Lelwica puts forward a hypothesis that has both theoretical and clinical implications. She identifies eating disorders as a specifically religious problem and contends that it can be addressed with religious resources. She argues that the remnants of religious legacies that have historically effaced the diversity and complexity of women's spiritual yearnings and struggles are alive and well under the guise of a host of "secular" practices, pictures and promises. Until these legacies are recognized, contested, and changed, she predicts, many girls and women will continue to turn to the symbolic and ritual resources most readily available to them - food and their bodies - in a passionate but precarious quest for freedom and fulfilment.

Title

Starving for salvation.

International Standard Book Number

0195127439

Eating disorders-- Patients-- Religious life.

Women-- Health and hygiene-- Religious aspects.

Feeding and Eating Disorders.

Religion.

Women's Health.

Eating disorders-- Patients-- Religious life.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Psychopathology-- Eating Disorders.

SELF-HELP-- Eating Disorders.

HRB

PSY-- 011000

SEL-- 014000

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Edition

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Book number

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Book Number

Lelwica, Michelle Mary.

Date of Transaction

20201207001535.0

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[Book]

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