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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Main Author Mavrović, Jelena Balabanić (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesWomen, economy and labour relations
Subjects
Eating disorders in women.
Body image in women.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781804557884
DOI10.1108/9781804557860
Physical Description1 online resource (200 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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