Body Work: The Social Construction of Women's Body Image

by Sylvia K. Blood

Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality?

Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety with food, eating and body size as suffering 'body image disturbance' or 'body image dissatisfaction', it can reproduce dominant assumptions about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415272726
• ISBN13: 9780415272728
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"