| The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa Contributor(s): Malson, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415163331 ISBN-13: 9780415163330 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: Why are so many women and girls distressed about their bodies, about food and about being a woman? "The Thin Woman" offers new feminist and post-structuralist insights into the problems of anorexia nervosa. Helen Malson draws on historical and contemporary literature to complement the findings of her own original research, based on the findings from a series of interviews with women diagnosed as anorexic. What does the medical profession "know" about anorexia? This volume questions the diagnosis of this eating disorder as a medical pathology, and asks the best way to understand this problem. In reviewing the history of diagnosis concerning anorexia along with her interviews, we can begin to see the problem as one socially situated in the conceptions of gender, subjectivity and control. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Eating Disorders - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| LCCN: 96-39930 |
| Series: Women & Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.17" W x 9.22" (0.90 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with particular ways of understanding eating disorders, yet the notion of 'anorexia' as a medical condition limits our understanding of anorexia and the extent to which we can explore it as a socially, discursively produced problem. Based on original research using historical and contemporary literature on anorexia nervosa, and a series of interviews with women diagnosed as anorexic, The Thin Woman offers new insights into the problem. It will prove useful both to those with an interest in eating disorders and gender, and to those interested in the new developments in feminist post-structuralist theory and discourse analytic research in psychology. |