Anoreksi og agens

Cultural studies and gender hold long-standing traditions for studying people with eating disorders as either passive objects subjected to misogynist discourses or subversive agents that negotiate societal norms. In both cases, agency is primarily investigated a phenomenon unfolds between the anorectic individual surrounding society. contrast, this article explores how question of also within her-/himself. It does so by setting up dialogue testimony Cecilie Lind’s pathography Scarykost (2016) philosophical ideas corporeality in feminist new materialism, affect theory, phenomenology. Ultimately, argues subject not homogenous can easily be classified active, but comprises an infra-corporeal landscape social, psychic, biological forms struggle determine will “I.” way, pushes back on tendency cultural make generalizing claims about anorectic’s – lack thereof.