`A readable book that contains simplified information of some complicated concepts. It will prove of benefit to those readers in the field of women and social studies ...

Recent research has indicated that approximately one-third of the patients who present with disordered eating also have significant personality disorders or Axis-II co ...

Blaming the media for reproducing and extolling unrealistic female bodies has almost become a popular truism. Even medical opinion notes that the media can influence young ...

Traditionally, women's eating disorders are thought to be strongly influenced by media images idealizing a normative thin female body. Taking a different approach, The Anorexic ...

This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and ...

Anthony Elliott presents a comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its applications in the social sciences and humanities in this new and fully revised second ...