Desiree Boughtwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5136265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desiree Boughtwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desiree |
| FAMILY NAME | Boughtwood |
| SIGNATURE | BOUGHTWOOD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (Cald) Families Dealing with Dementia
Other than obedient
This paper examines how teenage girls diagnosed with and being treated for anorexia nervosa in hospital construct their anorexia, their identity as patients, medical authority and their doctors. In‐depth interviews were conducted with 25 adolescent girls in two large, metropolitan hospitals in Australia. Using a discourse analytic approach informed by poststructural theory, we elucidate how girls perform as patients, contest the authoritative pos…
Ambivalent appetites
It is widely acknowledged that inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa is largely unsuccessful, with many patients dropping out of treatment or having repeated, failed admissions. Autobiographical and feminist accounts of anorexia suggest that inpatient regimes are reductionist because they focus largely on weight gain. Being fattened up without any attention to the psychic aspects of anorexia can create an ambivalent, uncomfortable body. The pa…
The paradox of virtue
In this paper we posit a radical retheorization of anorexia as a form of deviance. We examine how the disciplinary practices and moral technologies typical of contemporary secondary schooling signify and enter into the articulation of three ‘virtue discourses’ (discipline, achievement and healthism), and tease out how these ‘virtue discourses’ play into the formation of the ‘anorexic’ subject. Informed by Foucauldian theory, our analysis draws on…
The paradox of virtue
In this paper we posit a radical retheorization of anorexia as a form of deviance. We examine how the disciplinary practices and moral technologies typical of contemporary secondary schooling signify and enter into the articulation of three ‘virtue discourses’ (discipline, achievement and healthism), and tease out how these ‘virtue discourses’ play into the formation of the ‘anorexic’ subject. Informed by Foucauldian theory, our analysis draws on…
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (Cald) Families Dealing with Dementia
Other than obedient
This paper examines how teenage girls diagnosed with and being treated for anorexia nervosa in hospital construct their anorexia, their identity as patients, medical authority and their doctors. In‐depth interviews were conducted with 25 adolescent girls in two large, metropolitan hospitals in Australia. Using a discourse analytic approach informed by poststructural theory, we elucidate how girls perform as patients, contest the authoritative pos…
Ambivalent appetites
It is widely acknowledged that inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa is largely unsuccessful, with many patients dropping out of treatment or having repeated, failed admissions. Autobiographical and feminist accounts of anorexia suggest that inpatient regimes are reductionist because they focus largely on weight gain. Being fattened up without any attention to the psychic aspects of anorexia can create an ambivalent, uncomfortable body. The pa…
Ambivalent appetites
It is widely acknowledged that inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa is largely unsuccessful, with many patients dropping out of treatment or having repeated, failed admissions. Autobiographical and feminist accounts of anorexia suggest that inpatient regimes are reductionist because they focus largely on weight gain. Being fattened up without any attention to the psychic aspects of anorexia can create an ambivalent, uncomfortable body. The pa…
The paradox of virtue
In this paper we posit a radical retheorization of anorexia as a form of deviance. We examine how the disciplinary practices and moral technologies typical of contemporary secondary schooling signify and enter into the articulation of three ‘virtue discourses’ (discipline, achievement and healthism), and tease out how these ‘virtue discourses’ play into the formation of the ‘anorexic’ subject. Informed by Foucauldian theory, our analysis draws on…
Other than obedient
This paper examines how teenage girls diagnosed with and being treated for anorexia nervosa in hospital construct their anorexia, their identity as patients, medical authority and their doctors. In‐depth interviews were conducted with 25 adolescent girls in two large, metropolitan hospitals in Australia. Using a discourse analytic approach informed by poststructural theory, we elucidate how girls perform as patients, contest the authoritative pos…
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (Cald) Families Dealing with Dementia
Psychology (4 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anorexia nervosa (2 works) · Eating disorders (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works)