Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the intersections of postfeminist sensibilities, neoliberal constructs of citizenship and the notion of health as an individual responsibility managed through consumption.
Postfeminist healthism is used in this book to explore seven topics where postfeminist sensibility has the most impact on women’s health: self-help, weight, surgical technologies, sex, pregnancy, responsibilities for others’ health and pro-anorexia communities. The book explores the ways in which the desire to be normal and live a good life is tied to expectations of ‘normal-perfection’ circulated across interpersonal interactions, media representations and expert discourses.
It diagnoses postfeminist healthism as unhealthy for both those women who participate in it and those whom it excludes and considers how more positive directions may emerge. By exploring the under-researched intersection of postfeminism and health studies, this book will be invaluable to researchers and students in psychology, gender and women’s studies, health research, media studies and sociology.
| ISBN: | 9781138123779 |
| Publication date: | 31st July 2018 |
| Author: | Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans, Martine Robson |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 212 pages |
| Series: | Critical Approaches to Health |
| Genres: |
Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints Social, group or collective psychology Psychology of gender History Cultural studies Gender studies, gender groups Media studies Health psychology |
Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the intersections of postfeminist sensibilities, neoliberal constructs of citizenship and the notion of health as an individual responsibility managed through consumption. Postfeminist healthism is used in this book to explore seven topics where postfeminist sensibility has the most impact on women’s health: self-help, weight, surgical technologies, sex, pregnancy, responsibilities for others’ health and pro-anorexia communities.
Postfeminism and Health features in the following genres: Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychology of gender, History, Cultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Media studies, Health psychology
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Postfeminism and Health was written by Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans, Martine Robson and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Postfeminism and Health has 212 pages
Yes it is part of Critical Approaches to Health series
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