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

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: January 15, 2008

ISBN: 0230517730

ISBN 13: 9780230517738

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

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Release: January 15, 2008

ISBN: 0230517730

ISBN 13: 9780230517738

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