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Author Malson, Helen, 1965-

Title The thin woman : feminism, post-structuralism, and the social psychology of anorexia nervosa / Helen M. Malson
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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 MELB  616.85262 Mal/Twf  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 234 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Series Women and psychology
Women and psychology.
Contents Pt. I. Towards a feminist post-structuralist perspective. 1. Theorizing Women: Discoursing Gender, Subjectivity and Embodiment. 2. Discourse, Feminism, Research and the Production of Truth -- Pt. II. Instituting the thin woman: the discursive productions of 'anorexia nervosa'. 3. A Genealogy of 'Anorexia Nervosa'. 4. Discoursing Anorexias in the Late Twentieth Century -- Pt. III. Women's talk? Productions of the anorexic body in popular discourse. 5. The Thin/Anorexic Body and the Discursive Production of Gender. 6. Subjectivity, Embodiment and Gender in a Discourse of Cartesian Dualism. 7. Anorexia and the Discursive Production of the Self. 8. Discursive Self-Production and Self-Destruction
Summary Provides a discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist-social psychological standpoint. Based on original research using historical and contemporary literature on anorexia nervosa, and a series of interviews with women diagnosed as anorexic, this text offers insights into the problem
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anorexia nervosa -- Social aspects.
Leanness -- Psychological aspects.
Leanness.
Women -- Socialization.
Anorexia Nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa [MESH]
Psychology, Social [MESH]
Psychology, Social.
Women [MESH]
Women.
Anorexia Nervosa -- history.
Anorexia Nervosa -- psychology.
Body Image.
Feminism.
Sociology, Medical.
Women's Health.
Anorexia Nervosa -- psychology.
Anorexia Nervosa.
Socialization.
Women.
LC no. 96039930
ISBN 0415163323
0415163331 (paperback)