Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

Name: Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders
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ISBN: 9780415418102

ISBN-10: 0415418100

ISBN-13: 9780415418102

Edition: 2009

Authors: Maree Burns, Helen Malson, Maree Burns

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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 5/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Helen Malson is a Reader in Social Psychology at the Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, Bristol.Maree Burns is the co-ordinator of the Eating Difficulties Education Network in New Zealand.



List of contributors


Foreword



Acknowledgements



Re-theorising the slash of dis/order: An introduction to critical feminist approaches to eating dis/orders




Theorising eating dis/orders in a changing world



Theorising self-starvation: Beyond risk, governmentality and the normalizing gaze




Feeding the body




Understanding obesity by understanding desire




Not just 'a white girl's thing': The changing face of food and body image problems




Interrogating cultural contexts of dis/ordered eating



A critical discussion of normativity in discourses on eating disorders




Beyond western dis/orders: Thinness and self-starvation of other-ed women




Anorexia/bulimia as resistance and conformity in pro-Ana and pro-Mia virtual conversations




How big girls become fat girls: The cultural production of problem eating and physical inactivity




In/visible bodies and embodiment



Fat, feelings, bodies: A critical approach to obesity




Bodies as (im)material? Bulimia and body image discourse




Appearing to disappear: Postmodern femininities and self-starved subjectivities




Weight management, good health and the will to normality




Critiquing the discourses and discursive practices of treatment



Food for thought: Embodied slimness and nursing within an eating disorders unit




The anorexic as femme fatale: Reproducing gender through the father/psychiatrist-daughter/patient relationship




'There's something in my brain that doesn't work properly': Weight loss surgery and the medicalisation of obesity




Therapeutic discourse and eating disorders in the context of power




Critical interventions



Anti-anorexia/bulimia: A polemics of life and death




Feminisms in practice: Challenges and opportunities for an eating issues community agency




Rediscovering a daughter




Complexities of power and meaning: A reflection on Parts IV and V



Index