Critical bodies : representations, identities, and practices of weight and body management / edited by Sarah Riley ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing Critical Bodies: Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management / Pirkko Markula, Maree Burns and Sarah Riley -- Sect. I. Representations and Constructions of Body Weight and Body Management / Sally Wiggins -- 1. Deconstructing Un/Healthy Body-weight and Weight Management / Helen Malson -- 2. 'I Feel Ridiculous about Having Had It' - Critical Readings of Lived and Mediated Stories on Eating Disorders / Paula Saukko -- 3. Learning to Be Healthy, Dying to Be Thin: The Representation of Weight via Body Perfection Codes in Schools / Emma Rich and John Evans -- Sect. II. Constructing Embodied Identities / Hannah Frith -- 4. Starving in Cyberspace: The Construction of Identity on 'Pro-eating-disorder' Websites / Katy Day and Tammy Keys -- 5. Body Talk: Negotiating Body Image and Masculinity / Rosalind Gill -- 6. Feminist Object Relations Theory and Eating 'Disorders' / Colleen Heenan -- Sect. III. Meanings of Body Management Practices: Women's Experiences / Pirkko Markula -- 7. Dis/Orders of Weight Control: Bulimic and/or 'Healthy Weight' Practices / Maree Burns and Nicola Gavey -- 8. Sustaining Imbalance - Evidence of Neglect in the Pursuit of Nutritional Health / Lucy Aphramor and Jacqui Gingras -- 9. Older and Younger Women's Experiences of Commercial Weight Loss / Debra Gimlin -- Critical Bodies: Discourses of Health, Gender and Consumption / Sarah Riley, Hannah Frith, Sally Wiggins, Pirkko Markula and Maree Burns.