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How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect? The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating disorders reveals an important, and so far unexamined, psychosocial phenomenon. Drawing from interviews with incest survivors whose sexual and religious backgrounds are intimately connected with their problematic relationship with food, Jennifer Manlowe here illuminates the connections between female body, weight, and appetite preoccupations.Manlowe offers social and psychological insights into the most common forms of female suffering—incest and body hatred. The volume is intended as a resource for professionals, advocates, friends of survivors, and most importantly, the survivor of incest herself as she attempts to understand the links of meaning in her mind between her incest experience and her subsequent eating disorder.

Adult child sexual abuse victims --- Incest --- Women --- Eating disorders --- Body image. --- Sexism --- Christianity --- Twelve-step programs --- Religious life. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Mental health --- Etiology. --- Religious aspects. --- Beeld [Lichaams] --- Body image --- Corps [Image du ] --- Image [Body ] --- Image corporelle --- Image du corps --- Lichaamsbeeld --- Sex bias --- Image, Body --- Disorders of eating --- Eating, Pathological --- Eating disturbances --- Eating dysfunctions --- Pathological eating --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Adult survivors of child sexual abuse --- Adults sexually abused as children --- Child sexual abuse victims, Adult --- Controversial literature. --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Prejudices --- Sex (Psychology) --- Social perception --- Sex role --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Human body --- Appetite disorders --- Psychology, Pathological --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Sex crimes --- Sexual intercourse --- Consanguinity --- Adult child abuse victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Sexually abused children --- Controversial literature --- United States --- Religious life --- Etiology --- Adult child sexual abuse victims - United States - Religious life. --- Incest - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Women - Mental health - United States. --- Eating disorders - United States - Etiology. --- Sexism - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Twelve-step programs - Religious aspects - Controversial literature. --- Religious aspects&delete&