Anorexia nervosa: Psychopathology as the crystallization of culture

Toward a New Psychology of Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 423-454

  Bordo, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315811505-37     Document Type: Chapter

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