Citation

Moulding N. Violence Against Women 2015; 21(12): 1456-1480.

Affiliation

University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia nicole.moulding@unisa.edu.au.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215596243

PMID

26215286

Abstract

This article explores how women understand and experience the relationship between physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and the emergence of an eating disorder in their lives. The past three decades have seen increased attention to the links between abuse and eating disorders; however, the social contexts of abuse, the specific emotions involved, and how these might link to an eating disorder have not been explored. Through an in-depth interview study with 14 women, narrative-discursive analysis reveals how socially situated, abuse-related emotions, such as shame and self-contempt, can play out in an eating disorder and are located within social power relations framed primarily by gender but also by race and class.

Language: en