The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexic Women
The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with particular ways of understanding eating disorders, yet the notion of 'anorexia' as a medical condition limits our understanding of anorexia and the extent to which we can explore it as a socially, discursively produced problem.\ Based on original research using historical and contemporary literature on anorexia...
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The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with particular ways of understanding eating disorders, yet the notion of 'anorexia' as a medical condition limits our understanding of anorexia and the extent to which we can explore it as a socially, discursively produced problem.Based on original research using historical and contemporary literature on anorexia nervosa, and a series of interviews with women diagnosed as anorexic, The Thin Woman offers new insights into the problem. It will prove useful both to those with an interest in eating disorders and gender, and to those interested in the new developments in feminist post-structuralist theory and discourse analytic research in psychology.
PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of transcription conventionsIntroduction1Pt. ITowards a feminist post-structuralist perspective1Theorizing Women: Discoursing Gender, Subjectivity and Embodiment112Discourse, Feminism, Research and the Production of Truth34Pt. IIInstituting the thin woman: the discursive productions of 'anorexia nervosa'3A Genealogy of 'Anorexia Nervosa'474Discoursing Anorexias in the Late Twentieth Century76Pt. IIIWomen's talk? Productions of the anorexic body in popular discourse5The Thin/Anorexic Body and the Discursive Production of Gender1036Subjectivity, Embodiment and Gender in a Discourse of Cartesian Dualism1217Anorexia and the Discursive Production of the Self1428Discursive Self-Production and Self-Destruction159Conclusions188Appendix194Notes197References203Index225
