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Sublime Hunger: A Consideration of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
In this paper, I argue that one of the most intense ways women are encouraged to enjoy sublime experiences is via attempts to control their bodies through excessive dieting. If this is so, then the societal-cultural contributions to the problem of eating disorders exceed the perpetuation of a certain beauty ideal to include the almost universal encouragement women receive to diet, coupled with the relative shortage of opportunities women are afforded to experience the sublime.
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- Research Article
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- Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics , Fall Winter 2003 , pp. 65 - 86
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- Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.
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