Eating Disorders Arena - New Titles

Body Image

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 26:26:26 GMT

Body Image

Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children

By Sarah Grogan

Sarah Grogan provides a comprehensive overview of the subject of body image, pulling together diverse research from the fields of psychology, sociology, media, and gender studies in men, women, and children.

This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the significant increase in research on body image since the first edition was published, including new empirical data collected specifically for this text. In addition to examining evidence for sociocultural influences on body image, the book also reviews recent literature and includes new findings on body modification practices (cosmetic surgery, piercing, tattooing, and bodybuilding). It takes a critical look at interventions designed to promote positive body image and also attempts to link body image to physical health, looking in particular at motivations for potentially health-damaging practices such as anabolic steroid use and cosmetic surgery.

The only text to date that examines the issue of body image, focusing on men and children as well as women, Body Image will be invaluable to students and researchers in the area as well as those with an interest in how to promote positive body image.

ISBN: 9780415358224

Published July 26 2007 by Routledge.

Culture and Weight Consciousness

Thu, 01 May 1997 01:01:01 GMT

Culture and Weight Consciousness

By Mervat Nasser

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are among the few psychiatric syndromes with a plausible socio-cultural model of causation. Issues of culture and slimness are usually considered in terms of the experience of the western world, but there is a growing body of research suggesting that concern with slimness is becoming more prevalent in non-western cultures.
In Culture and Weight Consciousness, Mervat Nasser brings together this research and looks at the recent emergence of eating disorders in cultures that were previously free of such problems. She relates the feminist theories that have been put forward to explain the phenomenon of eating disorders in the west to the condition of modern women in many non-western cultures and concludes that their position is not at all that different from that of their western counterparts. This leads her to address the current limitations of the concept of culture and draw out the implications for future research.

ISBN: 9780415161527

Published May 01 1997 by Routledge.

From Feasting To Fasting

Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:19:19 GMT

From Feasting To Fasting

The Evolution of a Sin

By Veronika Grimm

In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh.
Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse Christian attitudes towards food. Descriptions of food found in the Pauline Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, Tertullian or Augustine are compared to contemporary Jewish or Graeco-Roman pagan texts. Thus a particular Christian mode of fasting is elaborated which influences us to the present day; ascetic fasting for the suppression of the sexual urges of the body.
From Feasting to Fasting is of interest to all students of Early Christianity, and to those searching for historical roots of modern attitudes.
Winner of the 1995 Routledge Ancient History Prize

ISBN: 9780415135955

Published September 19 1996 by Routledge.

Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body

Fri, 29 Sep 1995 29:29:29 GMT

Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body

Treatment Through Art Therapy

By Mary Levens

People with eating disorders often make desparate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experienced in relationships. Mary Levens takes the reader into the realm of magical thinking and its effect on ideas about eating and the body through a sensitive exploration of the images patients create in art therapy, in which themes of cannibalism constantly recur. Drawing on anthropology, religion and literature as well as psychoanalysis, she discusses the significance of these images and their implications for treatment of patients with eating disorders.

ISBN: 9780415122160

Published September 29 1995 by Routledge.