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Health & Fitness Nutrition

Consuming Passions

Feminist Approaches to Weight Preoccupation and Eating Disorders

edited by Catrina Brown & Karin Jasper

Publisher
Second Story Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1993
Category
Nutrition
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780929005423
    Publish Date
    Jul 1993
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926739120
    Publish Date
    Jan 1993
    List Price
    $14.95

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Twenty-two experts share their extensive knowledge on women's preoccupation with body size. They consider the continuum of eating behaviours ranging from dieting and exercise for weight control to anorexia and bulimia, and explore recent research in such

About the authors

Catrina Brown, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax, cross-appointed to Women’s Studies and Nursing. She is also a feminist psychotherapist in private practice with a focus on eating “disorders”.

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Karin Jasper is Clinical Mental Health Specialist and Research Co-ordinator of the Eating Disorder Program at Southlake Regional Health Centre. She is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto. She resides in Toronto, Ontario.

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