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By Mervat Nasser

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are one of the few psychiatric syndromes with a believable socio-cultural version of causation. problems with tradition and slimness tend to be thought of when it comes to the adventure of the western international, yet there's a turning out to be physique of study suggesting that crisis with slimness is changing into extra typical in non-western cultures.
In Culture and Weight Consciousness, Mervat Nasser brings jointly this learn and appears on the fresh emergence of consuming problems in cultures that have been formerly freed from such difficulties. She relates the feminist theories which were recommend to give an explanation for the phenomenon of consuming issues within the west to the situation of contemporary girls in lots of non-western cultures and concludes that their place isn't in any respect that diverse from that in their western opposite numbers. This leads her to deal with the present obstacles of the concept that of tradition and draw out the results for destiny research.

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