LEADER 02554nam 2200445Ka 450 001 9910758480603321 005 20240912105324.2 010 $a1-317-30153-6 035 $a(CKB)4900000001302722 035 $a(BIP)058780932 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781317301530 035 $a(ODN)ODN0004229299 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000001302722 100 $a20230609d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostfeminism and health $eCritical psychology and media perspectives. /$fSarah Riley 205 $a1st 210 $d2018 215 $a1 online resource 225 $aCritical Approaches to Health 311 $a1-138-12378-1 330 $aWinner 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. 606 $aFeminism 606 $aWomen 615 0$aFeminism 615 0$aWomen 676 $a362.1082 686 $aPSY000000$aPSY003000$2bisacsh 700 $aRiley$b Sarah$01744063 701 $aRiley$b Sarah$01744063 701 $aEvans$b Adrienne$01343575 701 $aRobson$b Martine$01744064 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910758480603321 996 $aPostfeminism and health$94291757 997 $aUNINA