Pt. I. Towards a feminist post-structuralist perspective. 1. Theorizing Women: Discoursing Gender, Subjectivity and Embodiment. 2. Discourse, Feminism, Research and the Production of Truth -- Pt. II. Instituting the thin woman: the discursive productions of 'anorexia nervosa'. 3. A Genealogy of 'Anorexia Nervosa'. 4. Discoursing Anorexias in the Late Twentieth Century -- Pt. III. Women's talk? Productions of the anorexic body in popular discourse. 5. The Thin/Anorexic Body and the Discursive Production of Gender. 6. Subjectivity, Embodiment and Gender in a Discourse of Cartesian Dualism. 7. Anorexia and the Discursive Production of the Self. 8. Discursive Self-Production and Self-Destruction
Summary
Provides a discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist-social psychological standpoint. Based on original research using historical and contemporary literature on anorexia nervosa, and a series of interviews with women diagnosed as anorexic, this text offers insights into the problem
