Womæn under erasure: Anorexic bodies in postmodern context

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-153

  Malson, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Discourse; Embodiment; Feminism, post structuralism; Gender; Postmodernism; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033092705     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1298(199903/04)9:2<137::AID-CASP506>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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