Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, through detailed ethnographic investigations. Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Unraveling anorexia's complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical perspective rooted in a socio-cultural context of bodies and gender. "Abject Relations" departs from conventional psychotherapy approaches and offers a different "logic," one that involves the shifting forces of power, disgust, and desire.

Megan Warin is a social anthropologist who has worked in psychiatry, gender studies, and public health at various institutions, including Durham University, the University of Adelaide, and Flinders University of South Australia.

1 Introduction
2 Steering a Course Between Fields
3 Knowing Through the Body
4 'True Anas' and Outside Anorexics
5 Abject Relations with Food
6 'Me and My Disgusting Body'
7 Be-coming Clean
8 Conclusions and Future Directions
Notes
Bibliography
Index