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"The book is invaluable…[it] will be of interest to anyone wanting to refine and rethink how to create effective and useful ‘on-going’ treatment and preventation programs by equipping them to see the illness in its wider cultural context." – Fiona Place, author and Host of the Commentary on Eating Disorders, Culture and Recovery at eatingdisorderhopeculture.blogspot.com
"This is a uniquely comprehensive collection of feminist work on eating dis (orders) and body management, and as a collection the chapters eloquently illustrate the utility of a post-modern framework for theorising eating (dis)orders. ... The book presents an invaluable resource for students, scholars and educators in the fields of humanities and social sciences, as well as to clinical practitioners." - Lilliana Del Busso, London South Bank University, in Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
"This is the book so many have been anxiously awaiting. Bringing together the perspectives of clinicians, theorists, activists, and those suffering, this book expands our thinking about what forces help to create and sustain eating disorders and stimulates a critically informed and comprehensive understanding of eating and body image disorders and of the contemporary woman’s bodily experience. It is a ground-breaking and much-needed resource for those wanting to understand, treat, and prevent eating disorders." – Margo Maine, Clinical Psychologist, author and co-founder of the Maine & Weinstein Speciality Group.
"Well considered, up-to-date and scholarly, I learnt a great deal without having to struggle and looked forward to reading the next chapter. Each contributor shows their knowledge and enthusiasm and the editors have linked each chapter brilliantly and seamlessly." – Paula Nicolson, Professor of Critical Social Health Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
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Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early twenty-first century.
Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders addresses these developments, exploring how eating disordered subjectivities, experiences and body management practices are theorised and researched within postmodern and post-structuralist feminist frameworks.
Bringing together an international range of cutting-edge, contemporary feminist research and theory on eating disorders, this book explores how anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity cannot be adequately understood in terms of individual mental illness and deviation from the norm but are instead continuous with the dominant cultural ideas and values of contemporary cultures.
This book will be essential reading for academic, graduate and post-graduate researchers with an interest in eating disorders and critical feminist scholarship, across a range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, cultural studies and gender studies as well as clinicians interested in exploring innovative theory and practice in this field.
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The editors bring together a range of innovative feminist theoretical and research perspectives to explore the relationship/connections between what is usually considered an `individual' experience of `suffering,' a diagnosable DSM psychiatric illness and the dominant cultural paradigms within which this `psychiatric' illness occurs.
The book is invaluable because it seeks to question the simplistic notion that it is the media and the promotion of thinness that inform/drives an individual's experience of illness. The contributors including Liz Eckerman, Susan Bordo and Paula Saukko question the notion the condition is just `a white girl's thing.' And in doing so highlight the importance of understanding how it is context, how it is only by analyzing the interplay between an individual's experience of an eating disorder and the dominant (and not so dominant) cultural paradigms that surround/suffocate them that you can begin to understand what drives that particular individual to starve, binge or purge. Understand the context of the disordered eating and what is causing their inner sense of chaos. Conflict.
Each of the contributors argue eating disorders are not static or fixed conditions - but rather their presentation and form constantly change in response to the wider range of cultural changes. What does remain the same is the significant distress and disruption they cause to the lives of individual's who experience them.
This book will be of interest to anyone wanting to refine and rethink how to create effective and useful `on-going' treatment and preventation programs by equipping them to see the illness in its wider cultural context.
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