Eating Disorders Arena

The Invisible Man

A Self-help Guide for Men With Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia

• By John F. Morgan

Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Some have full-blown conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating,...

Published February 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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Overcoming Body Image Disturbance

A Programme for People with Eating Disorders

• By Lorraine Bell, Jenny Rushforth

People with eating disorders often exhibit serious misconceptions about their own body image. Overcoming Body Image Disturbance provides a treatment programme (piloted by the authors) for...

Published February 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being

The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'

• By Helga Dittmar
• Series Editor: Professor Rupert Brown

Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and...

Published August 2nd 2007 by Psychology Press.

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Body Image

Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children

• By Sarah Grogan

Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children presents a review of what is presently known and the results of some new research...

Published July 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Beauty and Misogyny

Harmful Cultural Practices in the West

• By Sheila Jeffreys
• Series Editor: Jane Ussher

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of...

Published June 23rd 2005 by Routledge.

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Body Shame

Conceptualisation, Research and Treatment

• Edited by Paul Gilbert, Jeremy Miles

Physical appearance plays a powerful role in social relationships. Those who feel shame regarding the way they look, and who think others view their appearance...

Published October 17th 2002 by Routledge.

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Eating Disorders and Cultures in Transition

• Edited by Richard Gordon, Melanie Katzman, Mervat Nasser

Eating disorders: do they mark cultural transition?
Eating disorders that were once viewed as exclusive to specific class and ethnic boundaries in western culture are now...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Fat¿A Fate Worse Than Death?

Women, Weight, and Appearance

• By Ellen Cole, Esther D. Rothblum, Ruth R. Thone

Despite the gains of the women’s movement, women are still judged by what they look like--and men, by what they do. Fat--A Fate Worse Than...

Published August 12th 1997 by Routledge.

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