A Postmodern Headache

Corroto, Carla

doi:10.1177/1077800411423202

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“…Women scholars who challenge themselves by writing autoethnographies about the interrelationship between their health and work domains typically describe either their own experiences with health issues, or those of their significant others or other loved ones. The former reflect upon living with mental health disorders (Brooks, 2011) and physical diagnoses that range from feelings of pain and suffering (Corroto, 2011), treatable illnesses (Ettorre, 2005), and chronic illnesses (Ferdinand, 2018), to being diagnosed and living with a terminal and life-threatening condition (Nowakowski, 2019).…”

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Mother blaming and anorexia: How ideological state apparatuses have informed my perception of my mother's role in the formation of my eating disorder

Mikhaylova

2022

Feminism & Psychology

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Autoethnographic research has described the tendency to ascribe blame to mothers for their daughters’ disordered eating patterns, but the mechanisms by which these attitudes develop have been insufficiently investigated. The literature on mother-blaming and mothers’ roles in the development of women's eating disorders has provided macro-level theoretical explanations for this attribution of blame but lacks depictions of women who subscribe to these macro narratives and yet subsequently attribute blame to their own mothers on the micro level. In this paper, I address these two gaps by conducting a feminist autoethnographic inquiry into my own history of blaming my mother for my anorexia and other disordered eating patterns. I use classical structuralist and post-structuralist theoretical concepts, as well as Althusser's proposed neo-Marxist idea of ideological state apparatuses (ISAs). Results indicate that my mother-blaming behavior was mainly influenced by apparatuses of medicine, church, education, family, and culture. Legal, political, civic, and media apparatuses were less involved in the construction of my perception in this area. All in all, my findings provide richer insight into mother-blaming internalization on the micro level and enlarge the “palette” of feminist approaches to eating disorder analysis.

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