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Critical Bodies: Representations, Practices and Identities of Weight and Body Management

By Sally Wiggins , Pirkko Markula , Sarah Riley , Maree Burns , Hannah Frith

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0230517730, 9780230517738, 9780230591141
LCC
BF697.5.B63 C75 2007
Open Library ID
OL10194390M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
988 kB (1012211 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
256\219
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book showcases a selection of current work and debates on weight and body management practices that are being produced from the vibrant arena of critical and postmodern approaches in the social sciences. Weight issues have become central to Western understandings of health and identity, but analyses of weight and body management have often failed to contextualise weight related issues. This timely book addresses this gap by examining three key areas, namely, representation, identities, and practice, to explore and interrogate how body and weight management, subjectivities, experiences, and practices are constituted within and by the normative discourses of contemporary western culture.

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