Transformations of Intimacy and Sociality in Anorexia: Bedrooms in Public Institutions

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Reconfiguring Relatedness in Anorexia

“…As I have detailed elsewhere (Warin 2003a(Warin , 2003b(Warin , 2005, my field sites, like the everyday worlds of participants, were not bounded or contained. People moved back and forth between a myriad of intersecting psychiatric services, community spaces, and domestic dwellings-each site a social space enmeshed in and generating its own representations, knowledges and powers (Bourdieu & Wacquant 1992).…”

Speaking on behalf of the body and activity: Investigating the activity experiences of Canadian women living with anorexia nervosa

“…Embodiment as a theoretical framework d the problem of Cartesian maladies (Bray & Colebrook, 1998) Our thematic analysis was theoretically sensitized by the pioneering scholarship of feminist embodiment luminaries, such as Young (1980), Weiss (1999), Bordo (1993), Warin (2004Warin ( , 2005, and, more recently, Rich and Evans (2005). There are invariably tensions and fractions in the diverse field of embodiment scholarship.…”

Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities

“…Indeed, the gendered, hierarchical structure of such units, with male psychiatrists and female nurses, has been criticised for reproducing the dysfunctionally pathogenic family dynamics associated with anorexia (Malson 1998). Furthermore, the disciplinary power exercised through these regimented routines, with their focus on weighing, measuring, calorie counting and so on, has been criticised for reducing the patients to Foucauldian 'docile bodies' and failing to consider the social, mental and emotional dimensions of eating disorders (Warin 2005). Adherence to such regimes may even embed the anorexic role deeper into the patient's identity: Gremillion (2003) drily observes that enforced commitment may counteractively produce 'better practiced anorexics' through their stay in hospital (2003: 10).…”

“…Recovery, too, has been reframed as a longer term process of self-reflexive biographical identity work: individuals are to be given the therapeutic tools to understand how and why they came to need and use the illness, and how they might rechannel this agency in pursuit of health. Warin (2005) conducted participant observation and interviews with 46 people with eating disorders (all but two women) in Vancouver, Edinburgh and Adelaide, some of whom who had lived in these semivoluntary units. Here, she argues, inmates learned to disrupt and reconfigure institutional space as a means of demonstrating their autonomy.…”