The Ana Sanctuary: Women’s Pro-Anorexia Narratives in Cyberspace

2003

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2f1404a7b7c04b5c2e125f0bb7edde1e69596424

Citations in the corpus

• Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment (2009, unknown): “The young girls of the pro-ana communities turn to the Internet to support their bodily rituals of diet, exercise, and purging in the relative “safety” of being with their pro-ana peers and away from the judgments of others (mostly parents) (Dias 2003; Fox, Ward, and O’Rourke 2005; Walstrom 2001).”
• Online information, extreme communities and internet therapy: Is the internet good for our mental health? (2007, unknown): “Dias, K. (2003). The Ana Sanctuary: Women’s pro-anorexia narratives in cyberspace.”
• Investigating the impact of pro‐anorexia websites: a pilot study (2006, unknown): “…Grotto and Ana-by-Choice, these websites communicate that they are pro-anorexia websites rather than websites promoting recovery from eating disorders, and they are seen as safe havens in which to connect with similar others away from the judgemental eyes of the rest of the world (Dias, 2003).”