1st Edition
Negotiating Thinness Online The Cultural Politics of Pro-anorexia
By Gemma Cobb
Copyright 2020
180 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
178 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
178 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book interrogates the thin ideal in pro-anorexia online spaces and the way in which it operates on a continuum with everyday discourses around thinness. Since their inception in the late twentieth century, pro-anorexia online spaces have courted controversy: they have been vilified by the media and deleted by Internet moderators. This book explores the phenomenon during its tipping... Read more
Introduction: ‘Girls in Danger’
1: Medicine, Maladies and Anorexia Nervosa
2: ‘Lose Weight Without Dieting’: Disciplining the Body in Women’s Magazines
3: Normalising Pro-Anorexia
4: Intersectional Privilege in Pro-Anorexia Online Spaces
5: Articulating Pain: Investment or Lament
6: From Counterhegemonic to Counterpublic? The Political Potential of Pro-Anorexia
Epilogue: From the Mainstream to the Margins and Back Again
Appendix: Information on Pro-Anorexia Online Spaces
Biography
Gemma Cobb is a Lecturer in Media at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests include gender, the body and digital culture.
