Alice through the contemporary looking glass : a Foucauldian feminist study of older women's experiences of their self-transformation through bodily practices in a commercial weight-loss organisation

Deeply informed by both contemporary feminist theory and Michel Foucault's genealogical method and analytics of power work, this thesis is concerned with older women's experiences of their body self-transformation by locating its practice within a particular context-a commercial weight man...

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Main Author: McNamara, Barbara
Published: University of Liverpool 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.617030