Rebecca J. Lester
PhD, MSW, LCSW   

 

Rebecca J. Lester, PhD, MSW, PLCSW  | (314)413-3877  | rebecca@cathexa.com
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Books


2009

In preparation

Bargaining Lives: Eating Disorder Clinicians in the Era of Managed Care (working title).

 

In preparation    

Sickening: A Critical Intellectual History of Eating Disorder Treatment (working title).  Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology.  Rutgers University Press.

 

2005

Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent. University of California Press.

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Articles and Book Chapters


2009

Brokering Authenticity: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Ethics of Care at an American Eating Disorder Clinic.  Current Anthropology 50(3)

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2008

Anxious Bliss: A Case Study of Dissociation in a Mexican Nun. Transcultural Psychiatry 45(1): 56-78.

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2007

Critical Therapeutics in Two Eating Disorders Treatment Centers.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly 21(4): 369-387.

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It’s Like Being in a Labyrinth: Hispanic Immigrants’ Perceptions of Depression and Attitudes Towards Treatment, (second author with Leo Cabassa and Luis Zayas), Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health 9 (1): 1-16.

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2005

Why Do So Many Latina Teens Attempt Suicide?: A Conceptual Model for Research (second author, with Luis Zayas and Leo Cabassa), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 75 (2): 275-287.

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2004

Eating Disorders and the Problem of ‘Culture’ in Acculturation. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 28 (4): 607-615.

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2003

The Immediacy of Eternity: Time and Transformation in a Roman Catholic Convent. Religion 33 (3): 201-219.

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2000

Like a Natural Woman: Celibacy and the Embodied Self in Anorexia Nervosa.  In Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence. E.J. Sobo and S. Bell, eds. Pp. 197-213.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

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1999

Let Go and Let God: Religion and the Politics of Surrender in Overeaters Anonymous.  In Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness. Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer, eds.  Pp.139-164. New York: Aldine de  Gruyter.


1997

The (Dis)Embodied Self in Anorexia Nervosa.  Social Science & Medicine 44(4): 79-489.

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1995

Embodied Voices: Women's Food Asceticism and the Negotiation of Identity.  Ethos 23(2): 187-222.

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Book Reviews


2009

Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture, by Emily Martin.  American Anthropologist, in preparation.


The Cambridge Handbook for Sociocultural Psychology, edited by Jan Valsiner and Alberto Rosa.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly, in press.

 

2008  

The Madness of Mary Lincoln.  History: Reviews of New Books 36 (2): 73.

 

2006

Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863.  History 34 (4): 112-113.

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2004

Body/Meaning/Healing, by Thomas J. Csordas.  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72 (1):244-247.

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Bodies of Thought, by Ian Burkitt and Body and Organization, by Hassard, Holliday and Willmott.  Theory and Psychology 14(3):409-419.

 

2000

Culture: A Problem that Cannot Be Solved, by Charles W. Nuckolls and Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning, by Bradd Shore.  American Ethnologist 27 (4):760-2.


1998

Bizarre and Eccentric Behaviors, by Louis R. Franzini and John M. Grossberg. Social Science and  Medicine 47(10):1632.

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