 Among eating disorders, the apparently voluntary self-starvation known as anorexia nervosa has been a subject of intense speculation and theorizing. Because of its strong gender link, this behavior has been interpreted as an attempt to exert power by a group (adolescent girls and young women) marked by powerlessness, in a form of extreme, perfectionistic self control, creating an alienated, unheimlich body (Svenaeus 2013). The role of individual agency in these activities, particularly, has been linked to self identity and identity formation (Tan, Hope, &amp; Stewart 2003; Tan, Stewart, Fitzpatrick, &amp; Hope 2010; Gillett 2009; Morris 2013). The disorder apparently occurs more frequently in settings of Western or Westernized, influence and affluence. Implicated as triggers have been aesthetics around women’s appearance, as well as more general Western moral priorities around self-control, and ethereal, non-bodily qualities associated with weightless lightness (Bordo 1993; Giordano 2005).