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anorexia history
Anorexia Nervosa
Author_Nancy A. Gutierrez
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Body Emblazoned
Broken Heart
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Christian Mans Closet
cultural body politics
demonic
Early Modern
early modern studies
emblazoned
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Fasting Girls
Favorite Brother
female
female agency food refusal
Female Food Refusal
food
Food Refusal
gendered embodiment
Girl's Body
Girl’s Body
Green Sickness
heywoods
Jailer's Daughter
Jailer’s Daughter
Jane Balan
literary analysis England
maidens
Megan Matchinske
miracle
Miracle Maidens
Philip Gawdy
possession
Prodigious Abstinence
Puritan Resistance
Queen Elizabeth's Death
Queen Elizabeth’s Death
refusal
Renaissance Drama
Sidney Papers
Spousal Contracts
Susan Baker
women and power
Young Girl's Body
Young Girl’s Body
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781840142402
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nancy Gutierrez's exploration of female food refusal during the early modern period contributes to the ongoing conversation about female subjectivity and agency in a number of ways. She joins such scholars as Gail Kern Paster, Jonathan Sawday, and Michael Schoenfeldt, who locate early modern ideas of selfhood in the age's understanding of the body and bodily functions, that is, the recognition that behavior and feelings are a result of the internal workings of the body. Exploring the portrayals of the anorectic woman in the work of Ford, Shakespeare, Heywood and others and arguing that the survival of these women undermines regulatory policies exercised over them by those in authority, Gutierrez here demonstrates how female food refusal is a unique demonstration of individuality. The chapters of this book reveal how the common cultural association of women and food manifests itself in the early modern period-not as religious expression, which is the medieval representation, and not as an expression of dysfunctional adolescence and maturation, our own contemporary view, but rather as a trope in which the female body is a site of political apprehension and cultural change. This study is neither a history nor a survey of the anorectic female body in early modern England, but rather individual yet related discussions in which the starved female body is seen to signify certain (un)expressed tensions within the culture.
Nancy A. Gutierrez, The University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA
