The Thin Woman

ISBN-13: 9781032499406 / Miękka / 2023 / 280 str.

University of the Wes Helen (Centre for Appearance Research

Opis

The Classic Edition of The Thin Woman, first published in 1998, provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a critical feminist social psychological standpoint.

Spis treści

Part I Towards a Feminist Post-Structuralist Perspective  1 Theorizing Women: Discoursing Gender, Subjectivity and Embodiment  2 Discourse, Feminism, Research and the Production of Truth  Part II Instituting the Thin Woman: The Discursive Productions of ‘Anorexia Nervosa’  3 A Genealogy of ‘Anorexia Nervosa’  4 Discoursing Anorexias in the Late Twentieth Century  Part III Women’s Talk? Productions of the Anorexic Body in Popular Discourse  5 The Thin/Anorexic Body and the Discursive Production of Gender  6 Subjectivity, Embodiment and Gender in a Discourse of Cartesian Dualism  7 Anorexia and the Discursive Production of the Self  8 Discursive Self-Production and Self-Destruction

 

O autorze

Helen Malson is an Associate Professor in Social Psychology and a supervisor and tutor on the Graduate Diploma in Psychology Advanced program at Monash University, Australia. She is a former Consulting Editor of Feminism & Psychology, a Past Chair of the Psychology of Women and Equalities Section of the British Psychological Society and, until 2022 when she moved from the UK to Western Australia, a Co-Director of the Bristol Eating Disorders Health Integration Team.