Faith born of seduction : sexual trauma, body image, and religion / Jennifer L. Manlowe.
"How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect? The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect? The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating disorders reveals an important, and so far unexamined, psychosocial phenomenon. Drawing from interviews with incest survivors whose sexual and religious backgrounds are intimately connected with their problematic relationship with food, Jennifer Manlowe here illuminates the connections between female body, weight, and appetite preoccupations. Manlowe offers social and psychological insights into the most common forms of female suffering-incest and body hatred. The volume is intended as a resource for professionals, advocates, friends of survivors, and most importantly, the survivor of incest herself as she attempts to understand the links of meaning in her mind between her incest experience and her subsequent eating disorder"--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814763148 0814763146 9780814755174 9780814755297 |