anorexia – Page 2 – Little Bristling Soul

Susan Bordo, Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of a Culture

From “Against the false narratives of anorexia” by Katy Waldman

Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia

Emily Dickinson

carrieabigstick:

wrk / pain /

blood / *****

“The (Dis)Embodied Self in Anorexia Nervosa” by Rebecca J Lester

Jana Sterbak

softpyramid:

Eleanor Antin
Carving: A Traditional Sculpture, 1972
148 gelatin silver prints 7 x 5″ each, self portraits of the artist losing 10 pounds over the course of 37 days along with explanatory text panel
31 ¼ x 204 inches installed

maud ellman

For the anorectic “hunger is a form of speech; and speech is necessarily a dialogue whose meanings do not end with the intentions of the speaker [whose body is] enmeshed in social codes that precede […] and outlast […] its consciousness” (1993: 3).