TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malson,Helen
TI  - The thin woman: feminism, post-structuralism and the social psychology of anorexia nervosa 
SN  - 9780415163330 (pbk.) :
U1  - 616.852620082 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Anorexia nervosa
KW  - Women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Psychology
KW  - thema
KW  - Psychological theory & schools of thought
KW  - Psychology of gender
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - Clinical psychology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Eating disorders & therapy
KW  - Social, group or collective psychology
KW  - Health psychology
KW  - Psychotherapy
KW  - Feminism & feminist theory
KW  - Psychology: sexual behaviour
KW  - Anorexia Nervosa
KW  - history
KW  - psychology
KW  - Body Image
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Sociology, Medical
KW  - Women's Health
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-224) and index
N2  - In The Thin Woman, Helen Malson aims to place gender in a position of central importance in the discussions surrounding anorexia. She argues that anorexia is not just a medical issue, & should be viewed within a wider social & political context; 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
ER  -