Critical Bodies: Representations, Identities and Practices of Weight and Body Management
Description
Using work produced from the critical and postmodern arena in social sciences, this book examines three key areas - representation, identities and practice - to explore and interrogate how body and weight management, subjectivities, experiences and practices are constituted within and by the normative discourses of contemporary western culture.
Keywords
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
2007Book
Author(s)Sarah Riley
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230517738
LanguageEnglish
