Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Methodological foundations
3. The social organization of body image: categories and relations
4. Men’s images of women’s bodies: from shared conventions to personal intimacy
5. In narrative: changing bodies through life
6. Helping mothers
7. Dilemmas of support: the caregiver’s perspective
8. Conclusion
Appendix I: Transcription conventions
Index
Biography
Félix Díaz is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
The topic of body image and eating disorders is of wide interest to researchers, students and practitioners in a variety of health, clinical and social science fields. The strongest aspect of the book for me is the way that a variety of qualitative research approaches and methodologies are applied to one particular data set. This in-depth approach permits students and researchers interested in this topic to consider a known topic in a new light.
Janet Smithson, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Exeter, UK
Body Image as an Everyday Problematic’ offers a timely and fascinating contribution to our understandings of body image. Felix Diaz Martinez takes a critical, culturally situated perspective, using a novel range of social science methodologies to intervene in a range of debates in this field, providing really valuable and thought provoking insights.
Helen Malson, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, UK
