Women, body and eating : a social representational study in British and Tobagonian cultural contexts

In this thesis I explore women's engagement with body, weight and eating from a socio-cultural perspective. I discuss the limitations of current research on body dissatisfaction and propose that women's negative appraisal of their body needs to be understood as an active engagement with th...

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Main Author: Dorrer, Nike Cornelia
Published: University of Stirling 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.570528