Screen LibraryCritical bodies Representations, identities and practices of weight and body management /
Using work produced from the critical and postmodern arena in social sciences, this book examines three key areas - representation, identities and practice - to explore and interrogate how body and weight management, subjectivities, experiences and practices are constituted within and by the normati...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230591141 |
| Summary: |
Using work produced from the critical and postmodern arena in social sciences, this book examines three key areas - representation, identities and practice - to explore and interrogate how body and weight management, subjectivities, experiences and practices are constituted within and by the normative discourses of contemporary western culture. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 224 p. |
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9780230517738 9780230591141 : 0230591140 : |
| CLC: | B84 |
| Contents: | Introducing Critical Bodies: Representations, Practices and Identities of Weight and Body Management-- P.Markula, M.Burns & S.Riley SECTION 1: Representations and Constructions of Body Weight and Body Management-- S.Wiggins Deconstructing Un/healthy Body Weight and Weight Management-- H.Malson 'I Feel Ridiculous About Having Had It': Critical Readings of Lived and Mediated Stories on Eating Disorders-- P.Saukko Learning to be Healthy, Dying to be Thin: The Representation of Weight Via Body Perfection Codes in Schools-- E.Rich, & J.Evans SECTION 2: Constructing Embodied Identities-- H.Frith Starving in Cyberspace: The Construction of Identity on 'Pro-eating-disorder' Websites-- K.Day & T.Keys Body Talk: Negotiating Body Image and Masculinity-- R.Gill Feminist Object Relations Theory and Eating 'Disorders'-- C.Heenan SECTION 3: Meanings of Body Management Practices: Women's Experiences-- P.Markula Dis/Orders of Weight Control: Bulimic and/or 'Healthy Weight' Practices-- M.Burns & N.Gavey Sustaining Imbalance - Evidence of Neglect in the Pursuit of Nutritional Health-- L.Aphramor & J.Gingras Older and Younger Women's Experiences of Commercial Weight Loss-- D.Gimlin Critical Bodies: Discourses of Health, Gender and Consumption-- S.Riley, H. Frith, S.Wiggins, P.Markula & M.Burns. |