Starving for salvation : the spiritual dimensions of eating problems among American girls and women /

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Author / Creator:Lelwica, Michelle Mary.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (x, 210 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Eating disorders -- Patients -- Religious life.
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Religious aspects.
SELF-HELP -- Eating Disorders.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Eating Disorders.
Eating disorders -- Patients -- Religious life.
Feeding and Eating Disorders.
Religion.
Women's Health.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142789
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ISBN:142376031X
9781423760313
1280472014
9781280472015
9780195127430
0195127439
0195127439
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
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Summary:Presently, doctors and psychiatrists are professing their inability to develop theoretical approaches that lead to effective clinical methods to help women suffering from eating disorders. Michelle Lelwica puts forward a hypothesis that has both theoretical and clinical implications. She identifies eating disorders as a specifically religious problem and contends that it can be addressed with religious resources. She argues that the remnants of religious legacies that have historically effaced the diversity and complexity of women's spiritual yearnings and struggles are alive and well under the guise of a host of "secular" practices, pictures and promises. Until these legacies are recognized, contested, and changed, she predicts, many girls and women will continue to turn to the symbolic and ritual resources most readily available to them - food and their bodies - in a passionate but precarious quest for freedom and fulfilment.
Other form:Print version: Lelwica, Michelle Mary. Starving for salvation. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195127439