Critical feminist approaches to eating dis/orders

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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, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early twenty-first century.

Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders addresses these developments, exploring how eating disordered subjectivities, experiences and body management practices are theorised and researched within postmodern and post-structuralist feminist frameworks.

Bringing together an international range of cutting-edge, contemporary feminist research and theory on eating disorders, this book explores how anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity cannot be adequately understood in terms of individual mental illness and deviation from the norm but are instead continuous with the dominant cultural ideas and values of contemporary cultures.

This book will be essential reading for academic, graduate and post-graduate researchers with an interest in eating disorders and critical feminist scholarship, across a range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, cultural studies and gender studies as well as clinicians interested in exploring innovative theory and practice in this field.

Melanie A. KatzmanHelen Malson and Maree BurnsLiz EckermannJanet SayersMichael GardSusan BordoPaula SaukkoMervat Nasser and Helen MalsonKaty Day and Tammy KeysCarla RiceElspeth ProbynMaree BurnsHelen MalsonKathleen LebescoRuth SurteesNicole MouldingKaren ThrosbyMichael GuilfoyleDavid Epston and Rick MaiselMaree Burns and Jane TyrerRichard Treadgold and Ann Treadgold and Diana TreadgoldHelen Gremillion

List of contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xvii
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
1 Re-theorising the slash of dis/order: An introduction to critical feminist approaches to eating dis/orders	p. 1
Part I Theorising eating dis/orders in a changing world	p. 7
2 Theorising self-starvation: Beyond risk, governmentality and the normalizing gaze	p. 9
3 Feeding the body	p. 22
4 Understanding obesity by understanding desire	p. 35
5 Not just 'a white girl's thing': The changing face of food and body image problems	p. 46
Part II Interrogating cultural contexts of dis/ordered eating	p. 61
6 A critical discussion of normativity in discourses on eating disorders	p. 63
7 Beyond western dis/orders: Thinness and self-starvation of other-ed women	p. 74
8 Anorexia/bulimia as resistance and conformity in pro-Ana and pro-Mia virtual conversations	p. 87
9 How big girls become fat girls: The cultural production of problem eating and physical inactivity	p. 97
Part III In/visible bodies and embodiment	p. 111
10 Fat, feelings, bodies: A critical approach to obesity	p. 113
11 Bodies as (im)material? Bulimia and body image discourse	p. 124
12 Appearing to disappear: Postmodern femininities and self-starved subjectivities	p. 135
13 Weight management, good health and the will to normality	p. 146
Part IV Critiquing the discourses and discursive practices of treatment	p. 157
14 Food for thought: Embodied slimness and nursing within an eating disorders unit	p. 159
15 The anorexic as femme fatale: Reproducing gender through the father/psychiatrist-daughter/patient relationship	p. 172
16 'There's something in my brain that doesn't work properly': Weight loss surgery and the medicalisation of obesity	p. 185
17 Therapeutic discourse and eating disorders in the context of power	p. 196
Part V Critical interventions	p. 207
18 Anti-anorexia/bulimia: A polemics of life and death	p. 209
19 Feminisms in practice: Challenges and opportunities for an eating issues community agency	p. 221
20 Rediscovering a daughter	p. 233
21 Complexities of power and meaning: A reflection on Parts IV and V	p. 245
Index	p. 253

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