The Good body : asceticism in contemporary culture /

The Good body : asceticism in contemporary culture / [print] edited by Mary G. Winkler and Letha B. Cole. - New Haven : Yale University Press, [(c)1994. - vi, 247 pages : illistrations ; 24 cm.

Based on papers presented at a conference held at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas in 1991.



Respect for bodies Eating disorders in survivors of multimodal childhood abuse The good woman : asceticism and responsibility from the perspectives of battered women Textual harassment : desire and the female body The body as a historical category : science and imagination, 1660-1760 The social construction of premenstrual syndrome : a case study of scientific discourse as cultural contestation Differential prohibition, scientific discourse, and anorexiant stimulants Eating disorders, female psychology, and developmental disturbances Textual bodies : narratives of denial and desire in Studies on hysteria Flannery O'Connor and the celebration of embodiment The beauty of the beast : male body imagery in anthropological perspective Model women Judith Andre Jean M. Goodwin and Reina Attias Allison M. Moore Margaret R. Miles Estelle Cohen Mary Brown Parlee Arthur P. Leccese Janet de Groot Sara van den Berg William F. Monroe David D. Gilmore Mary G. Winkler.



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Body image--Social aspects--Congresses.
Control (Psychology)--Congresses.
Eating disorders--Congresses.
Asceticism--Congresses.

BF697.5.G663 1994 BF697.5.B63.C689.G663 1994

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