Postfeminism and Health Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives
Winner 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 th...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2019
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Series: | Critical Approaches to Health
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Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Winner 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. |
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Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), by/4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (212 p.) |
ISBN: | 9781317301547 9781138123786 9781315648613 9781138123779 |