02981nam 2200517I 450 991083187000332120181112152849.01-315-64861-X1-317-30154-4(CKB)4100000005388643(MiAaPQ)EBC5481417(OCoLC)1053719193(FlBoTFG)9781315648613(EXLCZ)99410000000538864320181112h20182019 uy 0engur||| |||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPostfeminism and Health Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives /by Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans and Martine RobsonFirst edition.Boca Raton, FL :Routledge,[2018].©2019.1 online resource (213 pages)Critical approaches to health1-138-12377-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Self-help -- Weight -- Technologies -- Sex -- Pregnancy -- Intimate responsibilities -- Pro-ana.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.Critical approaches to health.WomenHealth and hygieneSociological aspectsFeminismHealth aspectsFeminismPsychological aspectsWomenHealth and hygieneSociological aspects.FeminismHealth aspects.FeminismPsychological aspects.362.1082Riley Sarah Evans AdrienneRobson MartineFlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910831870003321UNINA