Women, Body, Illness

Women, Body, Illness
Author: Pamela Moss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2003-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461647320

This provocative and moving work explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women—coping with associated notions of illness, health, and being female—restructure their physical and social environments through the strategies they choose to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Strategies might include disclosing or concealing illness from employers and friends; seeking or rejecting emotional support through old friends and new contacts; and pursuing or resisting specific diagnoses from the biomedical community. Featuring a wealth of original research and personal stories, Women, Body, Illness tells the tales of chronically ill women forging networks of support, redefining themselves, and challenging what it is to be ill.

Queering Fat Embodiment

Queering Fat Embodiment
Author: Cat Pausé
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317072499

Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as ’fat-phobia’. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an alleged ’obesity epidemic’, this volume brings together the latest scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment. Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses. A critical queer examination on fatness, Queering Fat Embodiment will be of interest to scholars of cultural and queer theory, sociology and media studies, working on questions of embodiment, stigmatisation and gender and sexuality.

The Media and Body Image

The Media and Body Image
Author: Maggie Wykes
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005-01-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761942481

Drawing together literature from sociology, gender studies and psychology, this text offers a broad discussion of the topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics and self-identity.

Measuring Up

Measuring Up
Author: Vickie Rutledge Shields
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0812217918

Measuring Up looks at advertising as more than just a way to extract money from unsuspecting people but as a vehicle for conveying the larger views of a confining, body-obsessed culture.

Woman's Embodied Self

Woman's Embodied Self
Author: Joan C. Chrisler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017
Genre: Body image in women
ISBN: 9781433827419

Using various psychological theories, this book examines women's complex relations with their bodies and how attitudes toward the body affect women's sense of self. It also suggests ways to achieve a positive embodied self

The 'Fat' Female Body

The 'Fat' Female Body
Author: S. Murray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230584411

Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engaging with dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The 'Fat' Female Body explores the moral panic over the 'obesity epidemic', and the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. It contributes to the emerging field of fat studies by offering not only alternative understandings of subjectivity, the (re)production of public knowledge(s) of 'fatness', and politics of embodiment, but also the possibility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations.

Embodied Shame

Embodied Shame
Author: J. Brooks Bouson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2010-07-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438427395

Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.

New Typographic Design

New Typographic Design
Author: Roger Fawcett-Tang
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007
Genre: Graphic design (Typography).
ISBN: 9781856694681

A visual guide to the best in contemporary typographic design, this book features examples and usages of modern typography from around the world.