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The Anorexic Self: A Personal, Political Analysis of a Diagnostic Discourse
Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.
142 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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January 13, 2026
Continuing my lit review journey. This was great! An important reminder that dominant discourses can be both emancipatory and oppressive, and that critical feminist scholarship on ED is not a monolith. Compelling argument for a multiperspectival/polyvocal/multi-sited analytic approach.
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