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Clients Name Name of Professor Name of Class Date Anorexia Nervosa and the female Body The idea that food restriction is a mental disorder is something that has emerged from cultural developments of the 20th century.... The development of the idea of anorexia nervosa and the associated eating disorders is the product of culture, as much as the prevalence of the disorders within culture.... In the case of anorexia Nervosa and the related condition of Bulimia, the causes for the actions and the medical issues that are a result support the definition that modern professionals place upon the disorders....
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The paper "anorexia in Teens" casts light on eating disorders more common in women than in men, which usually manifest themselves during adolescence.... More specifically, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders describes the criterion for the diagnosis of anorexia as 'the refusal to maintain a normal body weight as defined by the weight of less than 85% of typical body weight for a given height as well as experiencing intense fear related to gaining weight' (Ray 2004)....
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The disorders can be categorized into the following- anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.... Most anorexics become so as adolescents, with 76% reporting onset of the disorder between the ages of 11 and 20(National Association of anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders, 2005)....
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The images which exemplify thinness in the media often stimulates feelings of dissatisfaction among the viewers; however, women, have somehow found a way to protest and oppose these images, calling for more realistic images instead to be portrayed by the media (Leppa, p.... And the size zero controversy has remained a crucial point of discussion especially when some experts pointed out that the size has been created by the media and in the twisted minds of the fashion editors (Penny, as cited by Gauntlett, p....
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Such ideal considerations between women and machines have also been observed in the VNS Matrix and its Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st century.... The paper "What Are the Features of a Gendered Approach to New media" states that attempts to deconstruct the gendered hierarchical considerations which constitute language – male/female or mind/body – to determine and assess the discussions on anorexia are placed within a hierarchical setting.... The gendered approach to new media shall be discussed based on cyberfeminism and some examples of how it applies to new media....
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Among the most vulnerable groups include young women, adolescents, and female athletes.... The paper "Multifaceted Eating Disorders" discusses that the treatment procedures for pica, just as in the other diseases discussed above include a combination of both psychotherapeutic counseling as well as medical administration at extreme conditions....
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The paper "Causes of anorexia Nervosa" review the theories and research relevant to anorexia nervosa (AN), and I will attempt to determine whether genetic or psychological factors are more important in the development of this disease, or whether they are equally important.... Psychosocial life stagesErik Erikson's psychosocial life stage theory would interpret anorexia as a failure of Stage 1, where the child is completely dependent on adults for both her physical and emotional needs....
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For example, the social learning explanation of the media is reductionist.... As such, it is incapable of accounting for the reasons that all females never become victims of Anorexia Nervosa, while they face similar pressures from the same media.... The paper "Psychosocial Factors Associated with anorexia Nervosa" discusses that the most implicated genes in passing on eating muddles are in biological structures that connect to mood, responses of reward-pleasure, appetite, and metabolism among others....
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