TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints800
UR  - http://cogprints.org/800/
A1  - Abed, Riadh T
Y1  - 1998/12//
N2  - A hypothesis is presented for eating disorders that contends that these syndromes together with the phenomenon of the pursuit of thinness are manifestations of female intra-sexual competition. It is argued that the present-day environment of Western coutries presnts a range of conditions that have led to the overactivation or disruption of the archaic female sexual strategy of maximising 'mate value'. The hypothesis deals with the ultimate level of causation and is therefore compatible with a range of theories dealing with the proximate level of causation.
KW  - eating disorders
KW  -  anorexia nervosa
KW  -  bulimia nervosa
KW  -  intra-sexual competition
KW  -  thinness
TI  - The sexual competition hypothesis for eating disorders
SP  - 525
AV  - public
EP  - 547
ER  -

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