title: "It Wasn't About Being Slim": Understanding Eating Disorders in the Context of Abuse.
abstract: This article explores how women understand and experience the relationship between physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and the emergence of an eating disorder in their lives. The past three decades have seen increased attention to the links between abuse and eating disorders; however, the social contexts of abuse, the specific emotions involved, and how these might link to an eating disorder have not been explored. Through an in-depth interview study with 14 women, narrative-discursive analysis reveals how socially situated, abuse-related emotions, such as shame and self-contempt, can play out in an eating disorder and are located within social power relations framed primarily by gender but also by race and class.
authors.affiliation: University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia nicole.moulding@unisa.edu.au.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Moulding
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D056912:Binge-Eating Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012649:Self Concept; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: abuse; eating disorders; qualitative analysis