Critical Bodies

Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-35543-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riley, S.

Burns, M.

Frith, H.

Wiggins, S.

Markula, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

LUCY APHRAMOR is a Senior Health Promotion Specialist in Diet and Cardiovascular Health, and Senior Research Assistant at the Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK
KATY DAY Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
JOHN EVANS Professor of Sociology of Education and Physical Education, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University
ROSALIND GILL Professor of Social Psychology and Cultural Theory, Open University, UK
DEBRA GIMLIN Lectures in Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK
JACQUE GINGRAS Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, School of Nutrition, Toronto, Canada
COLLEEN HEENAN is a Psychotherapist and University Lecturer
TAMMY KEYS graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, in 2003 with Joint Honours in Psychology and Sociology
HELEN MALSON Reader in Social Psychology, Centre for Appearance Research and School of Psychology, University of West of England, Bristol, UK
NICOLA GAVEY Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
EMMA RICH Lecturer in Physical Education, Gender, Identity and Health, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
PAULA SAUKKO Senior Lecturer in the ESRC-Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter, UK