Helen Malson

The Thin Woman

Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781032513355
• ISBN-10: 1032513357
• Artikelnr.: 68474989

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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