Advancing the literature on a critical topic, this important new work illuminates the relationship between the anguish of eating disorder sufferers and the prob

Advancing the literature on a critical topic, this important new work illuminates the relationship between the anguish of eating disorder sufferers and the prob

This text brings together an international range of cutting-edge, contemporary feminist research and theory on eating disorders.

Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, bo

This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is unders