{"product_id":"abject-relations-everyday-worlds-of-anorexia-paperback","title":"Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Warin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbject Relations\u003c\/i\u003e presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Participants describe difficulties with social relatedness, not being at home in their body, and feeling disgusting and worthless. For them, anorexia becomes a seductive and empowering practice that cleanses bodies of shame and guilt, becomes a friend and support, and allows them to forge new social relations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnraveling anorexia's complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical perspective rooted in a socio-cultural context of bodies and gender. \u003ci\u003eAbject Relations\u003c\/i\u003e departs from conventional psychotherapy approaches and offers a different \"logic,\" one that involves the shifting forces of power, disgust, and desire and provides new ways of thinking that may have implications for future treatment regimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Warin is a social anthropologist who has worked in psychiatry, gender studies, and public health at various institutions, including Durham University, the University of Adelaide, and Flinders University of South Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130618548359,"sku":"9780813546902","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fca36335a087408efd85b2f1788dd2f3.webp?v=1732612372","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/abject-relations-everyday-worlds-of-anorexia-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}