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An open invitation to productive conversations about feminism and the spectrum of eating disorders (part 1): Basic principles of feminist approaches (2022)
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Despite the long history of feminist research in the field and the clear relevance of questions of gender to this sphere, many continue to question the relevance of feminism for understanding and treating eating disorders in 2022. In this set of two... Read More about An open invitation to productive conversations about feminism and the spectrum of eating disorders (part 1): Basic principles of feminist approaches.

An open invitation to productive conversations about feminism and the spectrum of eating disorders (part 2): Potential contributions to the science of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention (2022)
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The role of feminism in eating disorders research, treatment, and advocacy continues to be debated, with little agreement in sight about the role—or lack thereof—of feminist eating disorders work. In these debates, the opportunity to open fruitful co... Read More about An open invitation to productive conversations about feminism and the spectrum of eating disorders (part 2): Potential contributions to the science of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Key stakeholder perspectives on primary care for young people with an eating disorder: A qualitative study (2021)
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This paper examines the provision of primary care for young people with an eating disorder within the UK from the perspectives of three key stakeholder groups: young people with an eating disorder, carers of young people with an eating disorder and G... Read More about Key stakeholder perspectives on primary care for young people with an eating disorder: A qualitative study.

Regulating ‘untrustworthy patients’: Constructions of ‘trust’ and ‘distrust’ in accounts of inpatient treatment for anorexia (2021)
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Trust has been seen as a lynchpin of therapeutic relationships. Yet due to perceptions that anorexia is one of the most difficult illnesses to treat and that patients are ‘treatment resistant’, achieving trust between patient and treatment... Read More about Regulating ‘untrustworthy patients’: Constructions of ‘trust’ and ‘distrust’ in accounts of inpatient treatment for anorexia.

Deconstructing “real” women: Young women's readings of advertising images of “plus-size” models in the UK (2016)
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© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Critical feminist researchers and others have amply elucidated the perniciousness of contemporary Western beauty ideals and, particularly, the near-ubiquitous idealisations of slenderness. In this context, the advent of... Read More about Deconstructing “real” women: Young women's readings of advertising images of “plus-size” models in the UK.

Feeding a fear of fatness? A preliminary investigation of how women with a history of eating disorders view ‘anti-obesity’ health promotion campaigns (2012)
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In recent years concerns about an ‘epidemic of obesity’ and its associated implications for health have led to national and global health promotion campaigns seeking to encourage weight-loss through healthier eating and exercise. Whilst intended as h... Read More about Feeding a fear of fatness? A preliminary investigation of how women with a history of eating disorders view ‘anti-obesity’ health promotion campaigns.

Post-feminist advertising laid bare: Young women's talk about the sexually agentic woman of 'midriff' advertising (2011)
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This paper presents a feminist Foucauldian analysis of women's interpretations of images of women in post-feminist advertising. Building on Ros Gill's analysis of post-feminist advertising images of women, and more specifically the figure of 'the mid... Read More about Post-feminist advertising laid bare: Young women's talk about the sexually agentic woman of 'midriff' advertising.

Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder' (2011)
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Background: The limited efficacy of treatments for eating disorders has been well documented. Yet few studies have explored patients' views about recovery or how culturally dominant ideas might be implicated in recovery or failure to recover. Aims Th... Read More about Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder'.

Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women? (2010)
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There has been a shift in the depiction of women in advertising from objectifying representations of women as passive sex objects to agentic sexual representations where the women appear powerful and in control (Gill, 2007a, 2008), and there is subst... Read More about Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women?.