feminism, post-structuralism, and the social psychology of anorexia nervosa /
First Statement of Responsibility
Helen Malson
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xv, 234 pages ;
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24 cm
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Women and psychology
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index
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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