Anorexia collapses two extremes: martyrdom and survival, self-expression and silence, life and death. It says that the answer to being seen is to disappear. Today's episode discusses the contradictory nature of anorexia, in addition to the dominant cultural discourse and literature that craft false narratives of the illness. 

Bibliography (show notes):

Bellafante, Ginia. “Disappearing to Be Seen.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 19 Sept. 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/books/review/Bellafante-t.html.

Chu, Paige. “Illness as Aesthetic.” The Varsity, 3 Sept. 2018, thevarsity.ca/2018/09/03/illness-as-aesthetic/.

Gregory, Alice. “Anorexia, the Impossible Subject.” The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/anorexia-the-impossible-subject.

Jamison, Leslie. “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain.” VQR Online, www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2014/04/grand-unified-theory-female-pain.

Rigl, Alexandra Haley. “The Anorexic Aesthetic: An Analysis of the Poetics of Glück, Dickinson, and Bidart.” Vanderbilt University, 2014. 

Waldman, Katy. “We Need to Reject the False Narratives Around Anorexia. I Can Start by Telling My Story.” Slate Magazine, 7 Dec. 2015, www.slate.com/articles/double_x/cover_story/2015/12/we_need_to_reject_the_false_narratives_around_anorexia.html.

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