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Getting the Difference Right: It's Power not Gender that Matters
Author(s) -
Katzman Melanie A.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
european eating disorders review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.511
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1099-0968
pISSN - 1072-4133
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0968(199706)5:2<71::aid-erv196>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - eating disorders , power (physics) , psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , disordered eating , association (psychology) , social psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , physics , quantum mechanics , radiology
The current paper argues that studying power differentials rather than gender differences may provide a more valuable heuristic for understanding the development of food abuse in varying nations as well as the presentation of eating problems in men. Feminist as well as transcultural literature is cited to argue against ‘weight obsessed’ models of aetiology and recovery. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.