Subversive, paradoxical, powerful: the eating disordered body online

Katya的研究建立在之前对在线饮食紊乱身体的研究基础上。为了了解饮食失调群体，包括那些被称为“厌食症患者”的群体，她的研究将使用人类学方法来探索、绘制地图并解释这些群体和在线平台的动态。更广泛地说，她将探索女性的身体是如何在网上受到监管和审查的，以及互联网的存在--作为表达和体验进食障碍的场所--可能会影响在线下体验进食障碍的方式。这项新研究还将开发一个由研究人员先前构建的模型来解释“支持安娜悖论”。这个模型说明了之前的研究和饮食紊乱社区成员所代表的矛盾：强制但有缺陷的生物医学模式，被社区成员颠覆，但受到社区成员的崇敬；体重和健康的结合；通过回收身体赋予女性权力，即使只是为了摧毁它；以及在一个无实体的(在线)空间中体现厌食症。

Katya's research builds on previous research into the eating disordered body online. Looking to understand eating disordered communities, including those termed 'pro-anorexic', her research will employ anthropological methods to explore, map and explain the dynamics of these groups and online platforms. More widely, she'll explore how women's bodies are regulated and censored online, and how the existence of the internet, as a place for eating disorders to be expressed and experienced, may affect the way an eating disorder is experienced offline.This new research will also develop a model previously constructed by the researcher to explain the 'pro-ana paradox'. The model has served to illustrate the contradictions represented by both prior research and members of the eating disordered communities: the enforced but flawed biomedical model, subverted yet revered by community members; the conflation of weight and wellness; female empowerment through reclaiming the body, if only to destroy it; and the embodiment of anorexia in a disembodied (online) space.