Theorising self-starvation: Beyond risk, governmentality and the normalising gaze

Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-21

  Eckermann, Liz ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203876442     Document Type: Chapter

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