TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riley,Sarah
TI  - Critical bodies: representations, identities, and practices of weight and body management 
SN  - 9780230517738 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BF697.5.B63 C75 2007
U1  - 306.4/613 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Body image
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Body weight
KW  - Regulation
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
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