Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse

Lisa Hodge (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-336-298-7 (ISBN)

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This book takes up the challenge of examining women’s understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology. The central argument is that women’s distress is an enactment of their engagement with certain discourses and practices, rather than a reaction triggered by child sexual abuse. Guided by a contemporary feminist framework and Mikhail Bakhtin’s sociological linguistics, to substantiate the argument, women’s own poetry and drawings are used as evidence to develop, support and supplement research findings. The book establishes that an eating disorder is ‘an understandable response’ to sexual trauma and shifts the focus away from ‘a damaged personality’. Even more importantly, it demonstrates that women with eating disorders are using their bodies as a form of resistance to express silenced traumas that remain in the silenced female body. This is an active way of making sense of experiences of child sexual abuse.

Lisa Hodge PhD, is a research fellow in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Australia

Part I. Examining Child Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders.- 1. Capturing the Research Journey: An Introduction.- 2. A Story of Language, Meaning and Power.- Part II. The Women’s Stories.- 3. The Female Body as a Site of Opposition.- 4. Masking the Self.- 5. Cleanliness and Purification.- 6. Beauty Politics in Eating Disorders.- 7. Situating Silence in Child Sexual Abuse.- 8. Conclusion: Beyond Illness and Pathology.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, color; 8 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 280 p. 11 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Bakhtin • child sexual abuse • dialogic theory • Eating Disorders • Qualitative research • Self-Harm • sexual trauma • visual research methodology
ISBN-10	981-336-298-7 / 9813362987
ISBN-13	978-981-336-298-7 / 9789813362987
Zustand	Neuware