The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa

by Helen Malson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415163331
• ISBN13: 9780415163330
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"