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Two problems emerge when we think about food and nutrition: what am I allowed to eat and what am I not allowed to eat, what hurts me and what does not hurt me? This is where good and evil begins. This is where the distinction between good and evil begins to develop. I believe this begins with eating (Joseph Beuys).

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Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia and Bulimia. Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)

 

. . . you don't see women making the leap to tenure. And this disturbs me greatly. These women have worked very hard. They have fulfilled their side of the social contract. I think what we've got is just a lot more highly trained, frustrated women. The New York Times Jul 18 2006

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Gender Identity Development and Bulimic Eating Behavior in Adolescence

Barbara Klingenspor* and Daniela Rastetter**
*Freie Universität Berlin, **Hamburger Universität für Wirtschaft und Politik

Abstract: Bulimic eating disorders are predominantly diagnosed in women. Social-psychological factors, in particular stereotypes that associate gender with specific personality traits, are thought to influence eating behavior and to cause eating disorders. Previous findings suggest that bulimic eating behavior is linked to the suppression of masculine traits. In order to test this hypothesis, discrepancies between the actual and the ideal self were examined as precursors of low self-esteem and bulimic eating behavior in adolescents between the ages of 13 and 20. Data were collected in an anonymous questionnaire study and analyzed with structural equation modeling. The discrepancy between how much they believed to possess masculine traits (actual self) and how much they would like to (ideal self) increased with age in girls in contrast to boys, while the discrepancy with regard to feminine traits decreased in both groups. For both sexes, bulimic eating behavior was related to masculine self-discrepancies indirectly, via self-esteem and dieting.

Keywords: Eating disorders, sex stereotypes, gender identity, identity development, self discrepancies.

Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 2004, 35, 2, 67-82. © 2004 Verlag Hans Huber

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