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Postmodern Feminist Treatment of the Female Body : Subversion of Somatophobia Through Eating Disorders in Atwoods the Edible Woman, Weldons the Fat Womans Joke, and Greens Jemima J.

Author :  Ebru Ugurel Ozdemir , Eda Altunel

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Country
Turkey
Publisher
Gece Kitapligi=Gece Publishing, Ankara, Turkey
ISBN 9786257702621
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info xx, 270p.
Categories Literature
Product Weight 400 gms.
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This book critically examines the subversive aspect of anorexia nervosa and binge eating within the context of postmodern feminist understanding of the female body in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman (1969), Fay Weldon’s The Fat Woman’s Joke (1967), and Jane Green’s Jemima J. (1999), respectively. The purpose of this study is to reveal the power of eating disorders both as the cause and the cure of somatophobia, which unfolds in the women of the selected novels, through examining the development of the self within the body with references to postmodern philosophy and postmodern feminist approach besides cultural and psychological associations of somatophobia. To realize this aim, through an interdisciplinary research and the analyses of the novels, parallelisms and relationships between the cultural ideology and the female embodiment and subjectivity; the images characterizing the ideal femininity; the philosophical background of somatophobia; modern and postmodern understanding of eating disorders; and the deconstruction/reconstruction of the body image are interpreted within the framework of postmodern feminist epistemology.

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