Femininity, mental weakness and difference : male students account for anorexia nervosa in men
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01/09/2005
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The purpose of this study was to examine how men account for the diagnosis in men of anorexia nervosa (AN), a condition commonly associated with women. Male students participated in focus group discussions of topics related to AN. Discussions were tape-recorded with participants' consent, transcribed, and then analyzed using discourse analysis. The participants spontaneously constructed AN as a female-specific condition. When asked to account for AN in men, they distanced AN from hegemonic masculinities in ways that sustained both dominant masculine identities and gender-specific constructions of AN. These findings show how issues of health and gender are interlinked in everyday understandings of AN. Future researchers might usefully consider how the construction of gender-specific illness implicates wider notions of both feminine and masculine gender identities. |
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Springer |
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DOI:10.1007/s11199-005-6763-2 McVittie, C., Hepworth, J., & Kirk, D. (2005) Femininity, mental weakness and difference : male students account for anorexia nervosa in men. Sex Roles, 53(5-6), pp. 413-418. |
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School of Public Health & Social Work |
Palavras-Chave | #anorexia nervosa #social construction #discourse analysis #masculinities |
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Journal Article |