Young Women and the Body
Subtitle: A Feminist Sociology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780333740903
Subjects: Adolescents; Eating disorders & therapy; Gender studies; Social Science; Textbooks; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Popular Culture - General; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Body image in adolescence; Body image in women; Psychology; Social conditions; Teenage girls
First sentence: As the Introduction outlines, the overall thesis of this volume is that the relationship between young women and their bodies is a negative and frequently damaging one, that girls can be said to suffer from a set of emotions which can be distilled into the term 'body-hatred'.