02556nam 2200445Ka 450 991075848060332120240912105324.21-317-30153-6(CKB)4900000001302722(BIP)058780932(VLeBooks)9781317301530(ODN)ODN0004229299(EXLCZ)99490000000130272220230609d2018 uy 0engurcn|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPostfeminism and health Critical psychology and media perspectives. /Sarah Riley1st20181 online resourceCritical Approaches to Health1-138-12378-1 Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of 'postfeminist healthism,' a twenty-first-century understanding of women's physical and mental health formed at the intersections of postfeminist sensibilities, neoliberal constructs of citizenship and the notion of health as an individual responsibility managed through consumption. Postfeminist healthism is used in this book to explore seven topics where postfeminist sensibility has the most impact on women's health: self-help, weight, surgical technologies, sex, pregnancy, responsibilities for others' health and pro-anorexia communities. The book explores the ways in which the desire to be normal and live a good life is tied to expectations of 'normal-perfection' circulated across interpersonal interactions, media representations and expert discourses. It diagnoses postfeminist healthism as unhealthy for both those women who participate in it and those whom it excludes and considers how more positive directions may emerge.　 By exploring the under-researched intersection of postfeminism and health studies, this book will be invaluable to researchers and students in psychology, gender and women's studies, health research, media studies and sociology.FeminismWomenFeminism.Women.362.1082PSY000000PSY003000bisacshRiley Sarah1744063Riley Sarah1744063Evans Adrienne1343575Robson Martine1744064BOOK9910758480603321Postfeminism and health4291757UNINA