Consuming passions : feminist approaches to weight preoccupation and eating disorders / edited by Catrina Brown and Karin Jasper.
- Date:
- [1993]
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Description
"Weight, food, and body image are consuming passions for many women in contemporary Western society, often distracting them from the real sources of their dissatisfaction and unhappiness. In this far-reaching collection twenty-two contributors explore how women can empower themselves to eat without guilt, to accept their bodies, and to engage in changing the actual conditions of their lives."--Jacket.
Publication/Creation
Toronto, Ontario : Second Story Press, [1993]
Physical description
459 pages ; 23 cm
Contributors
Notes
Copy 1. Donor: Family of Sheila Kitzinger.
Contents
Why weight? why women? why now? / Catrina Brown and Karin Jasper -- Creating beauty in Blackness / Kim Shayo Buchanan -- The continuum: anorexia, bulimia, and weight preoccupation / Catrina Brown -- Fat oppression / Beth MacInnis -- Why diets fail / Donna Ciliska -- Running risks: compulsive exercise and eating disorders / Helen Jefferson Lenskyi -- Deliciosa!: the body, passion, and pleasure / Farah M. Shroff -- Feminist therapy: power, ethics, and control / Catrina Brown -- Food, needs, and entitlement: women's experience of emotional eating / Robyn Zimberg -- Grieving the lost dreams of thinness / Andria Siegler -- Countertransference experiences / Niva Piran and Karin Jasper -- Feminist contracting: power and empowerment in therapy / Catrina Brown -- Out from under body-image disparagement / Karin Jasper -- Women embodied and emboldened: dealing with sexual violence / Patti McGillicuddy and Sasha Maze -- Making connections: family alcoholism and the development of eating problems / Connie Coniglio -- The politics of recovery / Ellen Driscoll -- Metaphors for healing self-harm behaviours / Maxene Adler -- Decoding the "language of fat": placing the eating-disorder groups in a feminist framework / Sandy Friedman -- Feminist family therapy / Jan Lackstrom -- Working with eating-disorder clients in institutions / Niva Piran -- Gaps between feminist understandings of eating disorders and personal experience / Éva A. Székely and Patricia DeFazio -- Changing the context / Karin Jasper -- Beyond dieting / Donna Ciliska -- Fitness for large women / Suzanne Bell -- "Getting beyond weight": women's health clinic weight preoccupation program / Catrina Brown and Robyn Zimberg -- The National Eating Disorder Information Centre: a profile / Merryl Bear and Alisa Gayle --Hersize: a weight-prejudice action group / Karin Jasper.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-454).
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Location Status Access Closed storesM27807
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ISBN
- 0929005422
- 9780929005423