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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818722903321

Autore

Blood Sylvia K. <1957->

Titolo

Body work : the social construction of women's body image / / Sylvia K. Blood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

0-7783-0179-6

1-134-48359-7

1-134-48360-0

1-280-18044-7

0-203-49510-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Women and psychology Body work

Classificazione

77.85

Disciplina

306.4/613

Soggetti

Body image in women

Women - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 EXPERIMENTAL BODY IMAGE RESEARCH; 2 CRITIQUE OF BODY IMAGE RESEARCH; 3 DISCURSIVE CONSTITUTION OF THE BODY; 4 'WHAT OTHER WOMEN LOOK LIKE NAKED' – READING A POPULAR WOMEN'S MAGAZINE; 5 PRACTICES OF SUBJECTIFICATION – 'BODY IMAGE' DISCOURSE IN POPULAR WOMEN'S MAGAZINES; 6 BODY IMAGE TALK – ONE WOMAN'S ACCOUNT OF HER EXPERIENCES; 7 CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS – FROM THEORY TO CLINICAL PRACTICE; REFERENCES; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

Experimental psychology formulates and resolves research questions about 'body image' in terms of the pathology of particular women. What it does not focus on, however, are the discursive practices at work in its own assumptions.