gender and power at a treatment center
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gremillion, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4610 - B
- Thesaurus
- anorexia nervosa, identiteit, familierelaties, psychologie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The book challenges assumptions regarding the difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, the author reveals how the therapies participate in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness and family life, that have contributed to the dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia in the United States since the 1970's.