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The transcultural feminist model
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The transcultural feminist model
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lived experiences, intersectionality, and eating disorders
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Transcultural feminist model
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lived experiences, intersectionality, and eating
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Bobila
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Samantha
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1986-
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Mary
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Sarah
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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Much of the research surrounding eating disorders erroneously focuses on white, female bodies and lacks a human element. The lived experiences, that is to say the actual words, feelings, and memories of those who have suffered from an eating disorder, are lacking substantially from studies on eating pathologies. Moreover, an adequate discussion and analysis of race and ethnicity fails to materialize in much of the medical and sociological studies on eating disorders. This essay seeks to address the disparity and close the gap by taking an intersectional and feminist approach to eating pathologies and bodily development. A critical analysis of medical literature, such as case studies and clinical diagnosis guidelines, is presented and suggests that these texts isolate those who do not fall into medically diagnosable entities. Secondly, feminist research is presented as an alternative means to understanding the development of the female body but also highlights the lack of race and ethnicity as a factor into the progression of an eating disorder. Lastly, the essay takes an intersectional approach to eating disorders by using the actual experience of an individual with an eating disorder. A close examination of race is provided to analyze the development of an eating disorder and this is made possible through the feminist methodology of standpoint theory and self-reflexivity. The essay uses trauma theory, intersectionality, and lived experience as a foundation for discussion. What is most interesting about the outcome is how individual experience seems to differ significantly from what is presented in medical literature and feminist/sociological perspectives on eating disorders and eating pathologies. The essay highlights how eating disorders are highly individualized responses to a trauma – eating disorders become a means of coping, grieving, and essentially living.
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Women's and Gender Studies
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Eating disorders in women
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Feminist theory
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v, 62 p.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Samantha Bobila
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Samantha
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2024-09-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after September 30, 2024.
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