Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
by
Helen Gremillion, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2003
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender,...