Beyond western dis/orders: Thinness and self-starvation of other-ed women

Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 74-86

  Nasser, Mervat ^a   Malson, Helen ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78650638938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203876442     Document Type: Chapter

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