Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define
conceptions of normality? Reassessing Experimental Psychology from
a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research
into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying
women who experience distress and anxiety with food, eating and
body size as suffering 'body image disturbance' or 'body image
dissatisfaction', it can reproduce dominant assumptions about
language, meaning and subjectivity. Experimental psychology's
discourse about body image has recently become more widely
influential, becoming popularised through domains such as women's
magazines, in which psychological experts provide 'facts' about
women's 'body image problems', and offer advice and psychological
treatments. With acute cross-disciplinary awareness Body Work: The
Social Construction of Women's Body Image exposes the assumptions
at work in the methods and status of experimental approaches.
Penetrating beyond the usual dichotomy between experimental and
popular psychology, this book illuminates some of the ways in which
women's magazines have embraced experimental psychology's treatment
of the issue. Drawing on her experience in Clinical Psychology,
Sylvia Blood highlights the damaging effects of uncritically
experimental views of body image. She goes on to elaborate not only
an alternative model of discursive construction but also the
implications of such a theory for clinical practice. Merging theory
and clinical experience, Sylvia Blood exposes the fallacies about
women's bodies that underpin experimental psychology's body image
research. She demonstrates the dangerous consequences of these
fallacies being accepted as truths in popular texts and in the talk
of 'everyday' women.
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