Femininity, Mental Weakness, and Difference: Male Students Account for Anorexia Nervosa in Men |
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Authors: | Chris McVittie Debbie Cavers Julie Hepworth |
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Institution: | (1) Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK;(2) University of Leicester, Leicester, UK;(3) Argosy University, California;(4) School of Social Sciences, Media, & Communication, Queen Margaret University College, Clerwood Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 8TS, UK |
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Abstract: | 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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Keywords: | anorexia nervosa social construction discourse analysis masculinities |
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