Feminist perspectives on eating disorders
Advancing the literature on a critical topic, this important new work illuminates the relationship between the anguish of eating disorder sufferers and the problems of ordinary women. The book covers a wide variety of issues - from ways in which gender may predispose women to eating disorders to the widespread cultural concerns these problems symbolize. Throughout, the psychology of women is reflected in the concepts and methods described; there is an explicit commitment to political and social equality for women; and therapy is reevaluated based on an understanding of the needs of women patients and the potentially differing contributions of male and female therapists. Providing valuable insights into the critical problem of eating disorders, this book is essential reading for clinicians and researchers alike. Also, by examining many of the ways in which women are affected by and respond to society's gender politics, the book may be used as a text in women's studies courses
Feminist criticism
xix, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780898621808, 9781572301825, 0898621801, 1572301821
28222100
Introduction, S.C. Wooley, Fallon, and KatzmanI. A GENDERED DISORDER: LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1. Too Close to the Bone: The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness, Seid 2. ...And Man Created Woman: Representations of Women's Bodies in Western Culture, O.W. Wooley 3. I'll Die for the Revolution But Don't Ask Me Not to Diet: Feminism and the Continuing Stigmatization of Obesity, Rothblum 4. Faces of Female Discontent: Depression, Disordered Eating, and Changing Gender Roles, Perlick and Silverstein5. Hunger, Wolf II. A PLACE FOR THE FEMALE BODY 6. Four Generations of Women: Our Bodies and Lives, Brigman 7. When Reproductive and Productive Worlds Meet: Collision or Growth?, Katzman 8. Imagining Ourselves Whole: A Feminist Approach to Treating Body Image Disorders, Hutchinson III. TREATMENT ISSUES: A FEMINIST REANALYSIS 9. Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders: The Concealed Debate, S.C. Wooley 10. Alternatives in Obesity Treatment: Focusing on Health for Fat Women, Burgard and Lyons 11. A Collaborative Approach to the Use of Medication, Raymond, Mitchell, Fallon, and Katzman12. Feminist Inpatient Treatment for Eating Disorders: An Oxymoron?, Sesan 13. Mothers, Daughters, and Eating Disorders: Honoring the Mother-Daughter Relationship, Rabinor 14. Hi, I'm Jane: I'm a Compulsive Overeater, van Wormer IV. RECONSTRUCTING THE FEMALE TEXT 15. Conflicts of Body and Image: Female Adolescents, Desire, and the No-Body Body, Tolman and Debold 16. The Female Therapist as Outlaw, S.C. Wooley 17. The Journey of Recovery: Dimensions of Change, Peters and Fallon 18. Food, Bodies, and Growing Up Female: Childhood Lessons about Culture, Race, and Class, Thompson V. POSSIBILITY 19. The Politics of Prevention, Steiner-Adair 20. Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness, Kilbourne 21. Toward a New Model for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, Shisslak and Crago 22. A Feminist Agenda for Psychological Research on Eating Disorders, Striegel-Moore.