Young Women and the Body
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Young Women and the Body

A Feminist Sociology

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Young Women and the Body

A Feminist Sociology

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Young Women and the Body sets out to examine why the current generation of young women seem to be deeply unhappy with their own bodies. Dieting and disguising are commonplace, and inflicting serious harm by no means rare in fourteen to eighteen year olds. Despite prophesies to the contrary boys and adults are suffering far less. Drawing on feminist social constructionist perspectives the book seeks to examine this epidemic of body-hatred.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2001
ISBN
9780333985410
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: the Alien Body
  5. 1 What is Body-Hatred?
  6. 2 The Limits of Self-Reflexivity
  7. 3 Adolescence and Body-Hatred
  8. 4 Teenage Consumers and Body-Hatred
  9. 5 Sexuality and Body-Hatred
  10. 6 Young Women's Experience of Body-Hatred: Stigma and Shame
  11. 7 Young Men and Body-Hatred
  12. 8 Young Women and the Body: Some Conclusions
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index