Anorexia as a choice: Constructing a new community of health and beauty through pro-ana websites

Embodied Resistance : Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 119-129

  Richardson, Abigail ^a   Cherry, Elizabeth ^b  

^a and Mass Communication   (United States)

^b MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

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