Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, bo

Advancing the literature on a critical topic, this important new work illuminates the relationship between the anguish of eating disorder sufferers and the prob

When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology

The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all

This is the first authored volume to offer a detailed, integrated analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders with theory, research, and practical ex