GNSE CLASS OF 2020

Drawing on the philosophies of immanence and becoming advanced by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Rebeka critically interrogates the ways that feminists have thought about anorexia. She advances a novel approach to understanding anorexia: as an embodied gendered phenomenon that neither pathologizes it, nor plays down its inextricable ties to patriarchal norms of bodily comportment placed on women in contemporary societies.