Sins of the flesh: anorexia, eroticism and the female vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
This article discusses anorexia as an aesthetic ideal rather than as an actual illness, as well as its erotic connotations in the context of Victorian literature and culture. The nineteenth century regarded anorexia as a gendered disease: like other so-called 'female maladies', it is connected with...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 297 - 309 |
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