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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introducing Critical Bodies: Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management
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Representations and Constructions of Body Weight and Body Management
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Constructing Embodied Identities
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Meanings of Body Management Practices: Women’s Experiences
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Critical Bodies: Discourses of Health, Gender and Consumption
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'The book demonstrates the persuasive power that inter- and multi-disciplinary discursive research can have when different versions are brought coherently to bear on an interconnected area of research. It will be of use to all researchers, and advanced students, who are interested in food, gender, the body, and, in particular, their pathologization under a medical gaze.' - Joseph Burridge, Discourse& Society
'The editorial group have successfully pulled together a coherent and diverse collection of nine chapters that offer a considerable breadth of material in relation to the, mainly but not exclusively, female body. Size, weight and the practices which produce and reproduce normative and rigid standards of desirable bodies are the central concerns.' - Liz Frost, Sociology of Health and Illness
'Critical Bodies is a well-structured text that presents a set of sophisticated, contemporary analyses of representations, identities and practices of weight and body management. The book contextualises body management practices in current health and gender related discourses, and provides a convincing account of the centrality of socio-political power dynamics in the production of embodiment.' - Lilliana del Busso, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Bodies
Book Subtitle: Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management
Editors: Sarah Riley, Maree Burns, Hannah Frith, Sally Wiggins, Pirkko Markula
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230591141
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51773-8Published: 28 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35543-3Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59114-1Published: 28 November 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 206
Topics: Critical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Developmental Psychology