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The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa (Women and Psychology) by Helen Malson is a psychology available to read on EtoBox.
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The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with particular ways of understanding eating disorders, yet the notion of 'anorexia' as a medical condition limits our understanding of anorexia and the extent to which we can explore it as a socially, discursively produced problem. Based on original research using historical and contemporary literature on anorexia nervosa,
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Helen Malson
- Publisher
- New York: Routledge
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134714032
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, Medicine
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- The Thin Woman : Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa (2023)
- The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa (Women and Psychology) (1997)
- The Thin Woman; Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa; Classic Edition (2023)
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