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Culture and Weight Consciousness
Contributor(s): Nasser, Mervat (Author)
ISBN: 0415161533     ISBN-13: 9780415161534
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $46.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 1997
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Issues of culture and thinness are usually considered in terms of the experience of the Western world, but there is a growing body of research suggesting that concern with weight is becoming more prevalent in non-western cultures.
"Culture and Weight" "Consciousness" brings together this research and looks at the recent emergence of eating disorders in cultures that were previously free of such problems. It relates the feminist theories that have been put forward to explain the phenomenon of eating disorders in the West to the condition of modern women in many non-Western cultures and concludes that their position is not at all that different from that of their western counterparts. It addresses the current limitations of the concept of culture and draws out the implications for future research.
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology - Eating Disorders
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - General
- Medical | Mental Health
Dewey: 616.852
LCCN: 96-43021
Lexile Measure: 1410
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.44" W x 8.49" (0.47 lbs) 160 pages
 
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Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are among the few psychiatric syndromes with a plausible socio-cultural model of causation. Issues of culture and slimness are usually considered in terms of the experience of the western world, but there is a growing body of research suggesting that concern with slimness is becoming more prevalent in non-western cultures.
In Culture and Weight Consciousness, Mervat Nasser brings together this research and looks at the recent emergence of eating disorders in cultures that were previously free of such problems. She relates the feminist theories that have been put forward to explain the phenomenon of eating disorders in the west to the condition of modern women in many non-western cultures and concludes that their position is not at all that different from that of their western counterparts. This leads her to address the current limitations of the concept of culture and draw out the implications for future research.