Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion
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 disord...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
New York University Press
1995
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| In: | Year: 1995 |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
Mental health (United States)
B Twelve-step programs ; Religious aspects B Sexism Religious aspects Christianity B Christianity ; Controversial literature B Twelve-step programs Religious aspects B Body Image B Adult child sexual abuse victims ; United States ; Religious life B Women ; Mental health ; United States B Eating disorders Etiology (United States) B Christianity Controversial literature B Adult child sexual abuse victims Religious life (United States) B Sexism ; Religious aspects ; Christianity B Incest Religious aspects Christianity B Eating disorders ; United States ; Etiology B Incest ; Religious aspects ; Christianity |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-216) and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 0814763146 |
| Access: | Open Access |