63052 20201105083207.0 sideral 101747 ART-2017-101747 eng (orcid)0000-0003-3846-468X Calvo-Pascual, M. Universidad de Zaragoza Eating disorders and constitutive absence in contemporary women's writing 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Anorexic narratives share the thesis that compulsive behaviours like eating disorders are determined by a strong existential component fuelled by women''s paradoxical position in present day capitalist western culture. After a review of social and psychological factors that play a significant role in the development of the disorders, this essay explores the representation of anorexia nervosa in three different first-person narratives. By portraying the psychological intricacies of the illness, these texts provide valuable information regarding its aetiology and cure in the line of recent bio-medical research on eating disorders that stresses the need to treat the disease as a symptom of a deeper emotional distress. In short, patients and characters manage to overcome the illness when they acknowledge a sense of constitutive absence as the root of their disease and learn to live with the ensuing need for identity definition. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H05 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2015-63506-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.184 2017 Gender Studies 2017 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 18, 4 (2017), 292-305 J. int. women's stud. Journal of International Women's Studies 1539-8706 http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1979&context=jiws Texto completo de la revista 196411 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63052/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 32274 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63052/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:63052 articulos driver 2020-11-05-08:19:18 ARTICLE