Critical bodies [Elektronisk resurs] Representations, identities and practices of weight and body management / Edited by Sarah Riley [et al.].

• 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.

• 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. -- This book showcases a selection of current work and debates on we ight and body management practices that are being produced from the vibrant arena of critical and postmodern approaches in the social sciences. Understanding weight issues in the developed world now occurs against a backdrop in which westernised cultural ideals about the body constitute the slim body as healthy, good, moral, attractive and 'normal'. Simultaneously the World Health Organisation has declared that the western world is in the grip of an 'obesity epidemic' despite the fact that so-called eating disorders and extreme dieting and body management practices are shown to be increasing. This timely book uses the three key areas of representation, identities and practice to contextualise weight and body management practices providing readers with innovative examples of how to explore and interrogate the way our understandings of health, identity and weight are constituted within and by normative discourses of contemporary western culture. 

Ämnesord

Body image  -- Psychological aspects. (LCSH)

Body weight  -- Regulation. (LCSH)

Body, Human  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Psychology.  (eflch)

Klassifikation

PSY (ämneskategori)

306.4613 (DDC)

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