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The Good body : asceticism in contemporary culture
- Title
- The Good body : asceticism in contemporary culture / edited by Mary G. Winkler & Letha B. Cole.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 95-3018 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 247 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Based on papers presented at a conference held at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex. in 1991.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Respect for bodies / Judith Andre -- Eating disorders in survivors of multimodal childhood abuse / Jean M. Goodwin and Reina Attias -- The good woman : asceticism and responsibility from the perspectives of battered women / Allison M. Moore -- Textual harassment : desire and the female body / Margaret R. Miles -- The body as a historical category : science and imagination, 1660-1760 / Estelle Cohen -- The social construction of premenstrual syndrome : a case study of scientific discourse as cultural contestation / Mary Brown Parlee -- Differential prohibition, scientific discourse, and anorexiant stimulants / Arthur P. Leccese -- Eating disorders, female psychology, and developmental disturbances / Janet de Groot -- Textual bodies : narratives of denial and desire in Studies on hysteria / Sara van den Berg -- Flannery O'Connor and the celebration of embodiment / William F. Monroe.
- The beauty of the beast : male body imagery in anthropological perspective / David D. Gilmore -- Model women / Mary G. Winkler.
- Call Number
- JFE 95-3018
- ISBN
- 0300056281 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 93048225
- OCLC
- 29702079
- Title
- The Good body : asceticism in contemporary culture / edited by Mary G. Winkler & Letha B. Cole.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Indexed Term
- Health Sociology
- Added Author
- Winkler, Mary G.Cole, Letha B., 1951-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 95-3018