Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders (Paperback)

Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early twenty-first century. Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders addresses these developments, exploring how eating disordered subjectivities, experiences and body management practices are theorised and researched within postmodern and post-structuralist feminist frameworks. Bringing together an international range of cutting-edge, contemporary feminist research and theory on eating disorders, this book explores how anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity cannot be adequately understood in terms of individual mental illness and deviation from the norm but are instead continuous with the dominant cultural ideas and values of contemporary cultures. This book will be essential reading for academic, graduate and post-graduate researchers with an interest in eating disorders and critical feminist scholarship, across a range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, cultural studies and gender studies as well as clinicians interested in exploring innovative theory and practice in this field.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Helen Malson • Maree Burns
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	257
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-41810-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > Eating disorders & therapy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN:	0-415-41810-0
Barcode:	9780415418102

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