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Lisa Tillmann, Carolyn Ellis and I are working on a book project and
would appreciate your feedback. Below, please find a brief description
of the book followed by a set of questions. To those who teach courses
or do research in the areas related to our project, we would appreciate
your responses to our questions.<br>
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Book Description: Tentatively titled, "Documenting Eating Disorders
and Recovery," this book project brings together the many phases of
our individual and collective work related to eating, body image,
bulimia and recovery. The book will include excerpts from my ethnographic research
on anorexic and bulimic women; Lisa's works; "A Secret Life in a
Culture of Thinness," and "Body and Bulimia Re-visited," and our
co-authored piece "Interactive Interviewing: Making Sense of Emotional
Experience." New material in the book will include an evocative
portrayal of our filmed 2009 interview sessions in which we revisit the
work we've done over the course of the last decade and explore new
issues related to recovery, aging and the changing body. Mediated
works, such as edited clips from our interview sessions, original
music, and digital art will accompany the book.<br>
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Our hope for this project is that it will raise consciousness about the
ways that culture conspires to help us feel deficient, to see our
bodies and our lives as riddled with problems that can be solved
through consumer culture. The work will expose and undermine those
messages and illuminate multiple pathways toward healthier ways of
living and being.<br>
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If you teach in areas related to the topics this book aims to address
and would consider using a text like ours, please respond to the
following questions:<br>
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1. Course title<br>
2. Professor Name<br>
3. Professor Affiliation<br>
4. How many students are typically enrolled and how often is the course taught?<br>
5. Would this book be required?<br>
6. Book/s currently used? <br>
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Thank you--Christine Kiesinger, Carolyn Ellis, Lisa Tillmann<br>
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