I would have never had the right words

Feb 21, 2011 23:40

"Gillian Brown, in her influential study of the relation between humanism and anorexia, shows that the anoretic's struggle to 'decrement' the body is possible precisely because the body is understood as an object for control and mastery rather than as an intrinsic part of the self. Quoting an anorexic's remark--'You make out of your body your very ( Read more... )

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citizencitizen February 23 2011, 01:20:30 UTC
Sometimes I don't realize how much my eating disorder affects my daily life. I will say, I am one of those media affected individuals, Top Model was like laying fuel on a fire.

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darkfairy13 February 25 2011, 06:40:33 UTC
Which is understandable and no critique on that, but rather corralling it all as the same type and then these half-assed cloying but empty looks into it and trying to understand it beyond the surface.

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