- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Dec 15 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415163323
- ISBN-13: 978-0415163323
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 558 g
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Helen Malson offers a fascinating, well-researched feminist perspective on anorexia nervosa Our cultures discourses on gender, subjectivity and embodiment are seen as deeply and perniciously damaging to women. Malson argues consistently against pathologizing the individual and for a social perspective which acknowledges powerful forces acting within and beyond an individual. - Lynda Randall, European Eating Disorders Review 1998
A special kind of intelligence seeps from its pages ... Read this book and grasp the strengths and weaknesses of social science when it addresses the human condition and individual existence. It has appeal and challenges for all of us: medical practitioners interested in the molecule, as well as sociologists and sufferers seeking a reassuring rationalisation of the psychosocial pathology contributing to their condition. - The Lancet
The Thin Woman represents a useful, inspirational, theoretical and methodical resource for anyone interested in the issues of anorexia nervosa and, indeed, anyone who is concerned to question the status and effects of our current knowledge about the social world. - Amanda le Couteur, University of Adelaide
admirably clear and concise - Griffin, 1999, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 9, 477-8
carefully crafted book ... a skilful integration of theory and research ... [Malson] presents a unique theoretical perspective that has many implications for research and future directions in the field. - Chavous, 2000, Sex Roles, 42 (5/6) 463-5
A special kind of intelligence seeps from its pages ... Read this book and grasp the strengths and weaknesses of social science when it addresses the human condition and individual existence. It has appeal and challenges for all of us: medical practitioners interested in the molecule, as well as sociologists and sufferers seeking a reassuring rationalisation of the psychosocial pathology contributing to their condition. - The Lancet
The Thin Woman represents a useful, inspirational, theoretical and methodical resource for anyone interested in the issues of anorexia nervosa and, indeed, anyone who is concerned to question the status and effects of our current knowledge about the social world. - Amanda le Couteur, University of Adelaide
admirably clear and concise - Griffin, 1999, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 9, 477-8
carefully crafted book ... a skilful integration of theory and research ... [Malson] presents a unique theoretical perspective that has many implications for research and future directions in the field. - Chavous, 2000, Sex Roles, 42 (5/6) 463-5
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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.
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.
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This review is from: The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa (Paperback)
The book is good, but be warned: the language is not intended for the lay person. This is even more unfortunate, because the author has really great, well built arguments. They sometimes get lost in the jargon of academia. Still, I have gone back to it many times as a reference. The historical research is unparalleled, and fascinating to find examples of aesceticism and self-stavation in the middle ages, for example. It's brave to take the unapologetic step into examining thinness as an aesthetic. Definitely worth it.
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