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Females, Body Dissatisfaction, and Nutrition

Girls and women of all ages, many ethnicities, and environments report struggling with body dissatisfaction that may affect nutrition [14]. This dissatisfaction may lead females or their loved ones to express concern and seek healthy or unhealthy ways to change their bodies [15]. While girls and women of all ages can report dissatisfaction with their bodies, as women age, the self-reported importance of their body shape and size declines [14]. While both boys and girls undergo major body changes during adolescence, and sometimes into early adulthood, that can impact body image [15], females have monthly body changes associated with menstrual cycling, enormous changes in physical size and shape associated with pregnancy and postpartum, as well as changes in body composition and fat deposition associated with midlife hormonal changes. Referral of girls and women (as well as boys and men) for counseling to explore and resolve body image as well as aging issues may improve nutritional outcomes and mental and physical health. The passage of mental health parity legislation should improve treatment options for individuals and families struggling with disturbances in eating and body image.

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(Female) Bodies and (Male) Sexuality
The gender complementarity experienced by the eldest generation is also found in the way they talk—or do not talk—about bodies and sexuality, including the gender specific emotional ambivalences we just heard of. Bodies, and especially the generative and problematic aspects of bodies, are more or...
(Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach)
(Re)Making the Female Body, Now
Our twenty-first century interpretative framework for non-consummation would be very different to that of 1848: while John may be situated as a failed husband, Effie would definitely be positioned as a failed wife. I end this thought experiment by arguing that Effie, in having a body not...
(Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism)
Body Dissatisfaction
Pregnancy is a unique time for women with respect to body image and weight, as weight gain is expected, and even accepted [48]. Although pregnant women are generally protected from the societal norms about weight [48], research suggests that body dissatisfaction is still prevalent among pregnant women...
(The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Behavioral Medicine: A Clinician Guide to Evidence-based Psychosocial Interventions for Individuals with Medical Illness)
Female body mutilation
The previous chapter examined the psychological abuse aspect of honour based violence. This chapter will look at physical abuse when it is inflicted in the form of female bodily mutilation. It will consider two specific instances of bodily harm against women and young girls, performed with the...
(Honour Based Crimes and the Law: Defining the Limits of Honour Based Violence and Abuse)
Down Below: The onset of war and the female body as alchemical vessel
We meet these forces, perhaps, in Carrington’s painting, Down Below, which visually expresses aspects of the trauma the artist also chronicled in a prose memoir, also titled Down Below, first published in VW, an American journal devoted to Surrealism, in 1944 (Suleiman, 1990:171). In...
(Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo: Cultural Complexes and the Redemptive Power of the Abjected Feminine)
Predictors of body dissatisfaction
Sociocultural models suggest that societal pressures to conform to beauty ideals can lead to body dissatisfaction and eating disturbances. The most widely accepted model in the literature is the Tripartite Model of Influence,4’ which suggests that pressures to conform to the societal ideals of appearance...
(The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication)
Translation and cultural representations: motherhood, female body, and violence
Regarding motherhood, the first category to be discussed, the markers considered were the absent mother and the role of women caregivers, and child loss in South American societies. The absent mother and the role of other women caregivers: the social role assigned to motherhood is closely connected to...
(The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender)
Reproducing the laboring female body
While not a sitcom, HBO’s critically acclaimed drama Girls (2012—2017) is central to a conversation of millennial women on television. Girls’ female cast navigates the pressures and politics of contemporary existence, romantic relationships and professional aspirations in New York...
(Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies)
Principle I: Body Dissatisfaction, Disordered Eating, and Eating Disorders Are a Public Health Issue
As discussed in Chapters 1 and 2, negative body image, DE, and EDs are very common and very costly in terms of their connections with poor health, chronic disability, and death. The spectrum of body image, DE, and EDs affects health and well-being on multiple levels, it is a major issue for societies,...
(The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theories, Research, and Applications)