There is a fine line between eating and exercising “for one's health” and adopting obsessive
dietary practices. Not currently recognised in the DSM-5, Orthorexia Nervosa is a proposed …

Engaging with the encounters and interactions people have on social media opens the
opportunity to think differently about eating disorder (ED) recoveries. We used narrative …

French historian and literary critic René Girard (1923–2015), most widely known for the
concepts of mimetic desire and scapegoating, also engaged in the discussion of the surge of …

The recent rise of injectable 'wonder drugs' for weight loss has been rapid and unregulated
(so rapid that it has resulted in a worldwide shortage of Ozempic). We analyse the …

This paper examines “recovery vlogging” as a mode of postfeminist empowerment, and
considers how the public disclosure of one's recovery from an eating disorder can serve to …

Pro-ana online communities in which people share their experiences of eating disorders
have attracted concern among scholars and health practitioners because of fears about their …

In this chapter, we analyze the implicit and explicit ways that power figures in feminist
research and theory on bodyweight and appearance. In the process, we consider how …

In the last ten years, veganism has transformed from a fringe social justice movement into
something akin to a trendy lifestyle choice. Across the Western world, young women are its …

There is a fine line between maintaining a healthy balanced lifestyle and adopting
obsessive dietary practices. Not currently recognised in the DSM-5, Orthorexia Nervosa is a …

While experiences of eating disorders have been explored in research for decades, there
are still a number of stereotypes that are demonstrated in various research contexts …