A community of starvation : the convergence of teenage girls on pro-eating disorder websites

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dc.contributor.advisorEngelhardt, Elizabeth S. D. (Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche), 1969-
dc.creatorGrant, Brea Colleen, 1981-
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-21T17:26:21Z
dc.date.available2017-02-21T17:26:21Z
dc.date.issued2007-05
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I will explore the topic of young women and eating disorders. I will specifically focus on the use of the Internet as a place for these women to express the new idea of being pro-eating disorder, as in choosing to have an eating disorder. These women create pages to encourage others to maintain their eating disorders and to find a community that will do the same for them. I studied over 20 pages created for this purpose in this paper. I begin by finding the similarities in the pro-eating disorder websites and the possible cultural situations that have allowed for these types of websites to emerge in such great number. In the second chapter of this paper, I am interested in the ways in which these websites form communities for those who participate in them, both in a silent and active way. The nature of the Internet creates a new type of community for those who choose to be involved in the pro-eating disorder discussion. In the last chapter of this paper, I studied pro-ed pages on the social networking site, Myspace. I was able to compare the Myspace pages that centered on an individual and those in the previous chapters that express the needs of a community.en_US
dc.description.departmentAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2QB9V995
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/45733
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subjectEating disordersen_US
dc.subjectWebsitesen_US
dc.subjectYoung womenen_US
dc.subjectOnline communityen_US
dc.titleA community of starvation : the convergence of teenage girls on pro-eating disorder websitesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentAmerican Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineAmerican Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Austinen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US

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