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Pursuing Perfection
In Pursuing Perfection, authors Margo Maine and Joe Kelly explore the emotional, social and cultural factors behind the ongoing epidemic of disordered eating and body image despair in adult women at midlife and beyond. Written from a biopsychosocial and feminist perspective, Pursuing Perfection describes the many issues women encounter as they navigate a rapidly changing culture that promotes unhealthy standards for beauty and appearance. This updated and expanded edition (originally published as The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect) is a unique guide for anyone seeking practical tools and strategies for adult women looking to establish health and body acceptance.
Beauty and Misogyny
Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but some ‘new’ feminists argue that beauty practices are no longer oppressive now that women can ‘choose’ them. However, in the last two decades the brutality of western beauty practices seems to have become much more severe, requiring the breaking of skin,...
Ithyanna, Last Daughter of Atlantis Book II
KIDNAPPED AND ENSLAVED BY ALIENS! The Flood of Noah has ended. Much of Earth is in an Ice Age. And Ithyanna, Last Daughter of Atlantis, swims around the world ocean at the command of the Lion of Judah, waiting for His next command. Suddenly, an alien spacecraft and its occupants capture Ithyanna, probe her mind, and enslave her. Among her fellow captives are famous persons like Elvis Presley, Amelia Earhart, and Jimmy Hoffa, and more obscure people such as a hostile 1960s female Black Panther, a disgruntled British World War II veteran from 1970, and Ithyanna’s aunt whom she has never met – and had a disdain for her younger sister/Ithyanna’s mother. All of them and countless other abdu...
Writing Size Zero
Like hysteria, anorexia is a fin de siècle pathology which fascinates and has reached epidemic proportions at the turn of the millennium. Parallel to the development of the phenomenon, an important body of experiential texts has revealed its presence in various parts of the world. While the medical discourse is still struggling with this conundrum, literature gives way to different interpretations by revealing the interconnectedness between writing and starving. Both signifying practices are experiences of the limit where fluxes of particles - food, words - are in constant interaction. Unlike most contemporary readings of anorexia, this book offers an original insight into the creative proc...
The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions
The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teaching Casebook is a collection of personal narratives, short stories, and poetry about mental illness and other life-affecting problems, mostly in the context of family life. Beginning with problems related to childhood, the stories range through adolescence, adulthood, and old age. The book explores family relationships affected by physical illness, mental illness, racism, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and much more. No academic description can convey the feelings, meaning, and effects on the individual or family of mental illness or other psychosocial stressors. Only narratives and stories based on direct experienceexactly what you'll find in The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professionscan offer this perspective. Each selection is accompanied by questions for discussion; selected reading lists are provided with each chapter. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.
No Fat Chicks
- Three-quarters of the women in North America think they're fat, though only a third of them are- More than 11 million American girls and women are afflicted with anorexia or bulimia- The average weight of a fashion model, 8 percent below that of the average woman in 1967, has fallen to more than 25 percent below that of the average woman todayWhat is behind these disturbing statistics? Money. In this passionate, provocative book, journalist Terry Poulton explores exactly how big business glorifies emaciation -- and why women have become willing to pursue the mirage of the "perfect" body even at the cost of their lives.Poulton once became a women's magazine cover story by losing 65 pounds i...
