Damaging the Body Debate
"Fasting and the Famished Body:
Disordered Eating and the Gendering of Self-Starvation"
Thursday 28 June 2012, 6pm (The Watershed, Bristol)
A panel discussion considering in what ways – biologically, culturally,
and symbolically- extreme under-eating has been seen to damage the male
and female body differently within cultural, historical, and literary
depictions, and how this damage is described and contextualized in
gendered terms.
Speakers:
Charlotte Boyce (University of Portsmouth)
Fasting Girls and Fasting Knights: Abstemious Eaters in Tennyson’s "Idylls
of the King"
Debra Ferreday (Lancaster University)
Visualising the Damaged Body: Anorexia, Haunting and Futurity
Neula Kerr-Boyle (University College London)
“This is absolutely an illness of the female sex”: East German Psychiatry
and Anorexia Nervosa, 1949-1990
Helen Malson (University of the West of England Gender Studies Research
Group)
The Discursive Production of ‘Anorexia Nervosa’: An Historical Perspective
The event will take place at the Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside,
Bristol BS1 5TX
Doors open at 6pm, when there will be a chance to view information about
the Glenside Hospital Museum. The panel will run from 6.30 - 8.30pm
Refreshments provided; Admission free.
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Web: http://www.DamagingtheBody.org
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Sarah Chaney
PhD Candidate
Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines
University College London
Department of Clinical, Educational & Developmental Psychology
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
Damaging the Body Seminar Series: Next Seminar Thursday 28th June 2012 6.30pm
Fasting and the Famished Body: Disordered Eating and the Gendering of
Self-Starvation
A panel discussion funded by the Wellcome Trust and the University of the
West of England's Gender Studies Research Group at The Watershed in
Bristol, with Charlotte Boyce, Debra Ferreday, Helen Malson and Neula
Kerr-Boyle.
http://damagingthebody.org
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