Postfeminism and Health
Postfeminism and Health
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.
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feminism, neoliberalism, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology, Martine Robson, Pro-ana Websites, critical health psychology, Self-tracking Apps, healthism, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies, Position Pregnancy, American Psychiatric Association, body weight, Pregnant Body, social constructionism, Sarah Riley, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMG Psychology of gender, consumption, identity, Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies, poststructuralism, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups, Good Life, Perfect Girl, media studies, Weight Loss Surgery, Adrienne Evans, Young Men, Self-help Literature, Postfeminist Sensibility, thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History, Intensive Mothering, Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH9 Health psychology, thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology, Pro-ana Communities, post-feminism
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