Tracing Feeling
Alyson Hoy reimagines eating disorders through queer theory and memoir, exploring embodiment, feeling, and the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals in Canada.
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Have you ever wondered how queer theory can illuminate the experiences of mental health crises among LGBTQ+ individuals?
Tracing Feeling: Queering Eating Disorders in Canada by Alyson Hoy explores how queer theories of feeling, embodiment, and subjectivity can reframe the understanding of eating disorders beyond medicalized and pathologized accounts. Combining memoir, critical essays, and theoretical engagement with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work, Hoy examines queer temporalities of illness, the haunting of the starving body, and the impact of stigma, bullying, and discrimination. The book highlights both personal and systemic dimensions of eating disorders in Canada, revealing the urgent need for inclusive and nuanced approaches to mental health. Drawing on lived experience and scholarly insight, Hoy demonstrates how reading and writing queer narratives can foster resilience, community, and healing.
Ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners in queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, curriculum studies, psychology, fat studies, narrative inquiry, and creative writing, as well as anyone interested in the intersections of queerness, embodiment, and mental health.
Have you ever wondered how queer theory can illuminate the experiences of mental health crises among LGBTQ+ individuals?
Tracing Feeling: Queering Eating Disorders in Canada by Alyson Hoy explores how queer theories of feeling, embodiment, and subjectivity can reframe the understanding of eating disorders beyond medicalized and pathologized accounts. Combining memoir, critical essays, and theoretical engagement with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work, Hoy examines queer temporalities of illness, the haunting of the starving body, and the impact of stigma, bullying, and discrimination. The book highlights both personal and systemic dimensions of eating disorders in Canada, revealing the urgent need for inclusive and nuanced approaches to mental health. Drawing on lived experience and scholarly insight, Hoy demonstrates how reading and writing queer narratives can foster resilience, community, and healing.
Ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners in queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, curriculum studies, psychology, fat studies, narrative inquiry, and creative writing, as well as anyone interested in the intersections of queerness, embodiment, and mental health.
Alyson Hoy, PhD, is a queer-identified writer, researcher, and vocational rehabilitation counsellor in Vancouver, BC, exploring queer embodiment, mental health, and eating disorders.
