Anorexic Dis(Connection): Managing Anorexia as an Illness and an Identity
Опубликовано на портале: 22-03-2007
Sociology of Health and Illness.
2006.
Vol. 28.
No. 3.
P. 284-306.
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This paper explores the ways in which young women 'manage' the complexities of the
presentation of an anorexic identity, the stigma attached to it, and the relationships
that are developed with fellow sufferers. A range of ethnographic data and 'voices'
are drawn upon, including a small qualitative study within a leading centre in the
UK for the treatment of eating disorders. The paper begins by outlining the ways
in which for many young women, anorexia is a stigmatised identity which in various
contexts comes to be perceived as an irrational and self-inflicted condition. It
was reported by the young women in our study that many of their peers, families and
teachers made sense of their eating disorder through a medicalised discourse which
focused on visual aspects of weight gain/loss and often stigmatised the condition,
reducing it to a position of pathology or irrationality. It is argued that these
experiences form a type of 'discursive constraint' (Ronai 1994) which many of the
young women attempt to resist by engaging with alternative contexts and relationships
through which they can construct more positive self-representations of anorexia or
anorexic identities. As is revealed through the various data sources, as these young
women negotiate the various discourses which offer them alternative subjectivities,
they come to manage anorexia as both an illness and an identity.
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