Eating disorders in a capitalist world : super woman or a super failure? /

Feminist critique has yet to deconstruct the new 'superwoman' ideal: the modern woman who can and must have everything, but who, in reality, is never good enough. This media myth is fertile ground for harmful practices that focus on a woman's own body and of course for specific consum...

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Autor principal: Mavrović, Jelena Balabanić (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Col·lecció:Women, economy and labour relations
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Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1108/9781804557860
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Taula de continguts:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. In-depth interviews with women with eating disorders
  • Chapter 3. Development of eating disorders in the socio-historical context
  • Chapter 4. Socio-cultural theories of the development of eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia)
  • Chapter 5. Research on contemporary social changes and eating disorders
  • Chapter 6. Gender roles and the body
  • Chapter 7. Thematic analysis
  • Chapter 8. Insecure femininity
  • Chapter 9. The despised vs. the idealized man
  • Chapter 10. The body is the fundamental determinant of a female identity
  • Chapter 11. Magical food - the morality of food consumption
  • Chapter 12. Independent meanings of binge eating and vomiting
  • Chapter 13. Spontaneous eating and using food against internal chaos
  • Chapter 14. A healthy diet and exercising - disorder or health?
  • Chapter 15. The context of growing up: Confirmation of the biopsychosocial model of the emergence of the disorder
  • Chapter 16. Final discussion.