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Our contribution focuses on the participation of a Moroccan and a Swiss girl, diagnosed with anorexia and trichotillomania, in the pursuit of their care trajectories. Against the background of sanitary democracy and global health, we address the question of how the girls play their patient role. Highlighting the self-control directive in the therapies, we describe the treatments and the use of contractual tools. Furthermore, we study the adults’ affirmations of the existence of ‚womanhood‘ and ask how the context facilitates the implementation of a female body ideal. We also look at the girls’ dress codes and appearance, analyse their gender performativity, and conclude with revealing the paradox of self-control, showing how girls use self-control, a form of agency, to bypass the medical contractual rules and control their self-construction.
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The Moroccan case study was conducted by Julie Pluies while the Swiss case study was carried out by Margaux Bressan and Sarah Bonnard.
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Anorexia nervosa – commonly referred to as “anorexia” – is a psychiatric disorder characterized by self-starvation, an unrealistic fear of weight gain, and a conspicuous distortion of body image (DSM-V, American Psychiatric Association 2013).
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Trichotillomania is a psychiatric disorder characterized by a compulsive desire to pull out one’s hair (DSM-V, American Psychiatric Association 2013).
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With the ABA approach, the treatments are intended to change the children’s behaviours and to help them with respect to their actions and skills, in both “a structured and unstructured environment” (i.e. in planned and spontaneous situations). ABA interventions focus on individual skills in order to improve and to foster “a full range of life skills, from communication and sociability to self-care and readiness for school” (www.autismspeaks.org).
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For facilitating the reading, we shall not use quotation marks when we use “contract of care”, but we would like to draw the attention of the reader to the fact that this is the medical term.
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Darmon (2008) spoke about “plain constraint”, but we prefer to use the term “physical constraint” with the intention of highlighting the control exerted over and through the patient’s body.
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The age in which wearing a veil becomes requisite is not systematic. Although a majority of parents and young females claim that it is appropriate as soon as girls have reached nubility, many variations are observable (Selby 2014).
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Pluies, J., Bressan, M., Bonnard, S. (2019). Self-control and Bodily Resources: Teenage Girls in the Face of the Paradox of Sanitary Democracy. Swiss and Moroccan Case Studies. In: Sieber Egger, A., Unterweger, G., Jäger, M., Kuhn, M., Hangartner, J. (eds) Kindheit(en) in formalen, nonformalen und informellen Bildungskontexten. Kinder, Kindheiten und Kindheitsforschung, vol 20. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23238-2_15
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