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, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within thedominant cultural milieus of the early twenty-first century. This book addresses these developments, exploring how eating disordered subjectivities, experiences and body management practices are theorised and researched within postmodern and post-structuralist feminist frameworks.

The book also includes much of interest to narrative therapists,
including chapters by Epston and Maisel, Helen Gremillion (Acting Head of School of Social Practice, UNITEC Institute of Technology and author of 'Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power in a Treatment Center(2003), Maree Burns, Jane Tyrer and EDEN (Jane and Maree recently completed Grad Dips in Counselling (Narrative Therapy) at UNITEC), Richard, Ann and Diana Treadgold who previously contributed Chapter 17: Lighting a torch in the great darkness of anorexia to 'Biting The Hand That Starves You(2004) and several articles in The Listener and Michael Guilfoyle (Trinity College, Dublin).

Reviews

"This is the book so many have been anxiously awaiting. Bringing together the perspectives of clinicians, theorists, activists, and those suffering, this book expands our thinking about what forces help to create and sustain eating disorders and stimulates a critically informed and comprehensive understanding of eating and body image disorders and of the contemporary woman’s bodily experience. It is a ground-breaking and much-needed resource for those wanting to understand, treat, and prevent eating disorders."

Margo Maine, Clinical Psychologist, author and co-founder of the Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group.