Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders

Patricia Fallon, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice and a clinical faculty member, University of Washington, Seattle. She serves on the editorial board of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention and speaks frequently at conferences on feminist theory and treatment of eating disorders. She is co-author of Bulimia: A Systems Approach to Treatment and author of articles in the areas of eating disorders, family therapy, and abuse. Melanie A. Katzman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City and serves on the faculty of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She is on the editorial board of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention and lectures frequently to national audiences. The author of articles and book chapters on eating disorders, women's issues, and group therapy, she is the co-author of two books, Treating Bulimia: Psycho-Educational Approach and You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too. Susan C. Wooley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Co-founder and Co-Director of the Eating Disorders Clinic in the Psychiatry Department, University of Cincinnati Medical College. Widely published in the fields of obesity, eating disorders, and body image, she is especially noted for her feminist orientation to these topics. A consulting editor to a number of journals, who serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Eating Disorders and Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, she is a frequent presenter at national conferences and is currently nearing completion of her own book, Screaming in a Different Language.

Introduction, S.C. Wooley, Fallon, and Katzman
I. A GENDERED DISORDER: LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1. Too Close to the Bone: The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness, Seid
2. ...And Man Created Woman: Representations of Women's Bodies in Western Culture, O.W. Wooley
3. I'll Die for the Revolution But Don't Ask Me Not to Diet: Feminism and the Continuing Stigmatization of Obesity, Rothblum
4. Faces of Female Discontent: Depression, Disordered Eating, and Changing Gender Roles, Perlick and Silverstein
5. Hunger, Wolf
II. A PLACE FOR THE FEMALE BODY
6. Four Generations of Women: Our Bodies and Lives, Brigman
7. When Reproductive and Productive Worlds Meet: Collision or Growth?, Katzman
8. Imagining Ourselves Whole: A Feminist Approach to Treating Body Image Disorders, Hutchinson
III. TREATMENT ISSUES: A FEMINIST REANALYSIS
9. Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders: The Concealed Debate, S.C. Wooley
10. Alternatives in Obesity Treatment: Focusing on Health for Fat Women, Burgard and Lyons
11. A Collaborative Approach to the Use of Medication, Raymond, Mitchell, Fallon, and Katzman
12. Feminist Inpatient Treatment for Eating Disorders: An Oxymoron?, Sesan
13. Mothers, Daughters, and Eating Disorders: Honoring the Mother-Daughter Relationship, Rabinor
14. Hi, I'm Jane: I'm a Compulsive Overeater, van Wormer
IV. RECONSTRUCTING THE FEMALE TEXT
15. Conflicts of Body and Image: Female Adolescents, Desire, and the No-Body Body, Tolman and Debold
16. The Female Therapist as Outlaw, S.C. Wooley
17. The Journey of Recovery: Dimensions of Change, Peters and Fallon
18. Food, Bodies, and Growing Up Female: Childhood Lessons about Culture, Race, and Class, Thompson
V. POSSIBILITY
19. The Politics of Prevention, Steiner-Adair
20. Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness, Kilbourne
21. Toward a New Model for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, Shisslak and Crago
22. A Feminist Agenda for Psychological Research on Eating Disorders, Striegel-Moore.