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I am most grateful to the nine women who participated in this study. Without their courage, insight, and openness this book would not have been so full. I am indebted to psychoanalyst and historian Charles Strozier, who taught me how to work with Robert J. Lifton’s psychohistorical method. The people who gave me helpful feedback on my research were feminist scholar Flora Davis; author of Surviving the Wreck Susan Osborn; writer and poet Bonnie Kaplan; and psychologist and race activist Janet Davis. I am grateful to Carolyn Fox and Julie Marvin, two copyeditors who helped me make sense to my readers. My psychoanalytic religion and psychology colleagues and friends—Michael Perlman, Elisa Diller, and Pat Davis—helped me deepen my insights into the symptoms of eating disorders. Theologians Catherine Keller and Dorothy Austin helped me to broaden my vision in seeing the gendered and theological nuances regarding food refusal. Each advisor pushed me past my own “anxieties” that go with being seen on a written page.

I am grateful to my Ph.D. Foucauldian/writing colloquium and am especially appreciative of Darla Fjeld, Karen Heffernan, Sharon Betcher, Catherine Keller, and Nam Soon Park. For the rewriting of this work, I owe much thanks for their patience and theoretical toil to Jennifer Hammer, editorial assistant at NYU Press, and to The Works Group—Paula Bolduc, William James Hersh, Christian Couto, and Paula Zeuge. Finally, I thank Louise Pavelko at Princeton’s Theological Book Agency for her frequent references.