Postfeminism and Body Image - Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans, Martine Robson

Postfeminism and Body Image

Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-17284-8 (ISBN)
47,35 inkl. MwSt
Postfeminism and Body Image is a ground-breaking work that provides a psycho-social analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image, psychology and media. It provides a framework through the work of renowned philosophers and their use in feminist scholarship to address the challenges in context of postfeminist sensibility.
Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image, psychology and media. The book outlines the theoretical framework through the work of renowned philosophers, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and their use in feminist scholarship, to address body-image issues and challenges in the context of a postfeminist sensibility.

The authors rethink body image, calling into question assumptions and obligations that affect recent issues related to social-media use, body positivity, the transformation imperative, body shaming and muscular masculinity. The analysis shows the advantage of seeing body image as a form of non-linear warfare, structured by contradiction, confusion and critique, where attempts to challenge oppressive body image practices are appropriated under the guise of positive alternatives to maintain that oppression. Through real-world examples, these nuanced concepts are made relatable and comprehensible to the readers. The book also offers a number of affirmative and hopeful ways forward.

This is an indispensable resource for students and professionals of Gender studies, Health Psychology, Social Psychology and Media and Cultural Studies. It is also ideal for anyone exploring body image, self-image, postfeminism and poststructualism.

Sarah Riley is Professor in Critical Health Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand, and the director of its Health Psychology master's programme. Her research examines discourse, affect and materiality in relation to digital technology, subjectivity, gender, bodies and neoliberalism. Adrienne Evans is Reader for Media in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, UK. Her research focuses on accounts of intimacy in the context of a postfeminist sensibility. In her work, she explores ways in which gender organises personal, social, intimate and cultural relationships as well as their manifestations in media culture. Martine Robson is a lecturer in Psychology at Aberystwyth University. Her work focuses on how people negotiate individualistic health-related lifestyle advice and uses poststructuralist theory to examine the ways in which people adopt and resist neoliberal healthism. Also published by the authors Postfeminism and Health: Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives, winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award, Academic Text category.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1: Can We Love our Bodies in a Postfminist Context?

Chapter 2: Because You’re Worth It

Chapter 3: Change Yourself

Chapter 4: Eat Clean, Train Mean, Get Lean

Chapter 5: Oh My God, I Hate You

Chapter 6: Muscle Men Make a Comeback

Epilogue

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Women and Psychology
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 560 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-17284-4 / 0367172844
ISBN-13 978-0-367-17284-8 / 9780367172848
Zustand Neuware
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