Critical bodies : representations, identities, and practices of weight and body management /
edited by Sarah Riley ... [et al.].
- xii, 206 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing Critical Bodies: Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management / Representations and Constructions of Body Weight and Body Management / Deconstructing Un/Healthy Body-weight and Weight Management / 'I Feel Ridiculous about Having Had It' - Critical Readings of Lived and Mediated Stories on Eating Disorders / Learning to Be Healthy, Dying to Be Thin: The Representation of Weight via Body Perfection Codes in Schools / Constructing Embodied Identities / Starving in Cyberspace: The Construction of Identity on 'Pro-eating-disorder' Websites / Body Talk: Negotiating Body Image and Masculinity / Feminist Object Relations Theory and Eating 'Disorders' / Meanings of Body Management Practices: Women's Experiences / Dis/Orders of Weight Control: Bulimic and/or 'Healthy Weight' Practices / Sustaining Imbalance - Evidence of Neglect in the Pursuit of Nutritional Health / Older and Younger Women's Experiences of Commercial Weight Loss / Critical Bodies: Discourses of Health, Gender and Consumption / Pirkko Markula, Maree Burns and Sarah Riley -- Sally Wiggins -- Helen Malson -- Paula Saukko -- Emma Rich and John Evans -- Hannah Frith -- Katy Day and Tammy Keys -- Rosalind Gill -- Colleen Heenan -- Pirkko Markula -- Maree Burns and Nicola Gavey -- Lucy Aphramor and Jacqui Gingras -- Debra Gimlin -- Sarah Riley, Hannah Frith, Sally Wiggins, Pirkko Markula and Maree Burns. Sect. I. 1. 2. 3. Sect. II. 4. 5. 6. Sect. III. 7. 8. 9.