Creating Bodies. Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival
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Author(s): K. Gentile
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0881634387
Format: softback
210pp
Price: £26.50
Review Date: 26 July 2007
Review: This book is an analysis of Hannah’s diaries. It tells her life: backstabbing adolescent friends, her father’s bulimia, her own relationship with bulimia, her marriage to an abusive man, and, finally, her transformation and healing. This story is told not only through the content of Hannah’s own words (her body), but also through the structure of her text her body, unconscious). Here Katie Gentile analyses the diaries, looking at both the content and structure to provide a unique account of one woman’s struggle against, and ultimate recovers from, an eating disorder.