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List of contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Methodological foundations
3. The social organization of body image: categories and relations
4. Men’s images of women’s bodies: from shared conventions to personal intimacy
5. In narrative: changing bodies through life
6. Helping mothers
7. Dilemmas of support: the caregiver’s perspective
8. Conclusion
Appendix I: Transcription conventions
Index

About the author

Félix Díaz is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Summary

In Body Image as an Everyday Problematic, Diaz seeks to offer a comprehensive perspective on body image as an everyday problematic, grounded on verbal accounts of biographic experience.

Additional text

The topic of body image and eating disorders is of wide interest to researchers, students and practitioners in a variety of health, clinical and social science fields. The strongest aspect of the book for me is the way that a variety of qualitative research approaches and methodologies are applied to one particular data set. This in-depth approach permits students and researchers interested in this topic to consider a known topic in a new light.
Janet Smithson, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Exeter, UK
Body Image as an Everyday Problematic’ offers a timely and fascinating contribution to our understandings of body image. Felix Diaz Martinez takes a critical, culturally situated perspective, using a novel range of social science methodologies to intervene in a range of debates in this field, providing really valuable and thought provoking insights.
Helen Malson, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, UK

Product details

• Authors: Félix Díaz, Felix Martinez, Felix Diaz Martinez, Félix Martínez, Félix Díaz Martínez
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138052321
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05232-1
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society; Routledge Research in Gender and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; History, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Nursing, Dietetics & nutrition, Psychotherapy, Women's health, Humanities, Women’s health, Health psychology, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Gender studies: women, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Dietetics and nutrition, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Medical Sociology, Research methods: general