TY - JOUR
T1 - My body and other stories
T2 - Anorexia nervosa and the legal politics of embodiment
AU - Keywood, K.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - In a series of cases in the 1990s, English law confirmed the legality of tube feeding, detention and restraint of anorexic women. In declaring such practices lawful, English law has provided a space in which anorexic identity is constituted by reference to dominant discursive regimes of medical positivism and dualistic conceptions of the mind and body. This article examines critically law's engagement with the anorexic body. It also considers possible modes of resistance, in particular the potential of poststructuralism, to make space for the resignifying of anorexic bodies in law.
AB - In a series of cases in the 1990s, English law confirmed the legality of tube feeding, detention and restraint of anorexic women. In declaring such practices lawful, English law has provided a space in which anorexic identity is constituted by reference to dominant discursive regimes of medical positivism and dualistic conceptions of the mind and body. This article examines critically law's engagement with the anorexic body. It also considers possible modes of resistance, in particular the potential of poststructuralism, to make space for the resignifying of anorexic bodies in law.
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U2 - 10.1177/096466390000900402
DO - 10.1177/096466390000900402
M3 - Article
SN - 0964-6639
VL - 9
SP - 495
EP - 513
JO - Social and Legal Studies
JF - Social and Legal Studies
IS - 4
ER -