1st Edition
Body Work The Social Construction of Women's Body Image
By Sylvia K. Blood
Copyright 2005
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality?
Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety with food, eating and body size as suffering 'body image disturbance' or 'body image... Read more
Introduction. Experimental Body Image Research. Critique of Body Image Research. Discursive Constitution of the Body. ‘What Other Women Look Like Naked’: Reading a Popular Women’s Magazine Practices of Subjectification: ‘Body Image’ Discourse in Popular Women’s Magazines. Body Image Talk – One Woman’s Account of Her Experiences. Clinical Implications – from Theory to Clinical Practice.
Biography
Sylvia Blood is a Clinical Psychologist who has been in private practice for over fifteen years. She has a particular interest in working with women who experience distress with their bodies and eating.
'Effectively illustrates how the assumptions we make about body image from an individualistic Western research perspective may not actually be helpful to women with body-image problems. Moreover, [Blood] offers an alternative perspective that does justice to the complexity of women's feelings about their bodies. ... I plan on using this text as the basis for a panel discussion in a university setting on women's body image, and I anticipate it will generate interesting intellectual dialogue across several disciplines and perspectives.' - Christy Barongan, in PsycCRITIQUES, March 2006.
