April 2011

1. Apr 2011 web OA PDF
   A Perfect Loathing: The Feminist Expulsion of the Eating Disorder ↗
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   Abstract

   In Kenneth Burke's Language as Symbolic Action , it is suggested that communities build internal cohesion by negating portions of their constituencies in rituals of purification.  Over the past thirty years these dynamics have been evidenced in the role that eating disorders have played in the development of contemporary feminist consciousness.    While key feminist authors have been framing these conditions for the larger public, the manner in which anorexia and bulimia have been projected through these writings has become increasingly problematic.

   modern rhetorical theory gender and writing