Description

In Starving for Salvation, Michelle Lelwica challenges traditional the ories by introducing and exploring the spiritual nature of anorexia, b ulimia, and related problems. Drawing on a range of sources that inclu de interviews with sufferers of eating disorders, she offers an incisi ve analysis of American culture, arguing that our social values and pa triarchal religious legacies produce feelings of pain and emptiness in women. She predicts that until these religious and cultural forces ar e contested, many women will turn to the only symbolic and ritual reso urces available to them–food and their bodies–in order to satiate th eir profound spiritual hunger.

Author: Lelwica, Michelle Mary

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 195127439
Language: English
Pages: 224