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| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part I | ||
| I | Eating Disorders and their Causes | 21 |
| 1.1) | The History of Anorexia and the Cult of Thinness | 23 |
| 1.2) | Bulimia Nervosa and its History as Illustrated in Literature | 62 |
| 1.3) | The Binge-Eating Disorder | 75 |
| 1.4) | Sub-clinical Eating Disorders | 83 |
| 1.5) | Why Has the Incidence of Eating Disorders Increased? | 89 |
| 1.5.1) | Physiological Explanations | 89 |
| 1.5.2) | Psychological Theories | 91 |
| 1.5.3) | Eating Disorders as Cultural Ills | 103 |
| II | Perspectives on Literary Accounts of Eating Disorders | 111 |
| 2.1) | Reading Literature within its Cultural Context | 111 |
| 2.2) | Metaphors of Hunger, Society, and Literature: Maud Ellmann's The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment and Leslie Heywood's Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture | 118 |
| 2.3) | Writings about Starvation and Gorging as Confessions | 127 |
| Part II | ||
| III | Jenefer Shute's Life-Size: A Socially Critical and Confessional Account of an Anorectic's Hospitalization | 147 |
| 3.1) | The Makings of an Anorectic | 151 |
| Media | ||
| Thinness, Wealth, and Status | ||
| Influence of Male Condemnation on Josie's Anorexia | ||
| Barbie: Icon of Idealized Womanhood | ||
| 3.2) | Confessional Aspects of Life-Size | 158 |
| Josie's Distorted Sense of Self | ||
| Searching for Selfhood in Mirrors and Measurements | ||
| Josie's Distorted Sense of Other People's Bodies and Food | ||
| Testifying in an Enclosed Space | ||
| Aesthetic Qualities | ||
| 3.3) | Comparing Life-Size to Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: Confessional and Anti-Confessional Treatments of Disordered Eating | 179 |
| IV | Stephanie Grant's The Passion of Alice: An Ironic Take on the Atmosphere of Coerced Confession in an Eating Disorder Clinic | 189 |
| 4.1) | The Passion of Alice's Critique of American Culture Changes in Tone to Reflect Alterations in Consciousness | 190 |
| 4.2) | The Anorexic Mindset and the Experience of Passion | 204 |
| 4.3) | Institutionalized Confession: Secrets of the Eating Disordered | 209 |
| V | Marya Hornbacher's Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia: The Apotheosis of Confession | 221 |
| 5.1) | Wasted as the Apotheosis of Confessional Literature | 229 |
| 5.2) | Cultural Criticism or How-to Guide for Bulimia | 250 |
| 5.3) | The Demonization of Bulimia | 263 |
| Conclusion: America Confesses its Fear of Fat and Food | 271 | |
| Bibliography | 283 |
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