Feeding Anorexia
Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Our rough guess is there are 69,250 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 4 hours and 37 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 9 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Word Count
69,250 words, Guess
Page Count
277 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9619971M
- ISBN-139780822331209
- ISBN-100822331209
- OCLC Control Number51203818
- OCLC Control Numberfeedinganorexiag0000grem
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002155155
- Goodreads1012203
- LibraryThing1472191
Classifications
- LCCRC552.A5 G746 2003
Description
This is an in-depth study of a psychiatric programme for treating eating disorders that shows how such clinics reproduce discourses about health, gender and family that cause anorexia and thus fail to cure the patients.
First Sentence
This chapter explores the ways in which patients diagnosed with anorexia and the clinicians and staff who work with them construe bodies as resources for fitness and health.
Subjects
Topics
Series Statement
- Body, Commodity, Text
Other Editions
- Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!