ABSTRACT
What are the clinical implications of the arguments outlined in this book? We have seen how the assumptions that form the basis of body image research, including its mind-body dualism, perceptualism, realism and the society-individual dichotomy, lead to the pathologising of individual women whose experience of their bodies causes them distress. I believe a view of women’s embodiment and subjectivity, as discursively constituted, and an understanding of the material effects of different discursive constructions enables alternative, and arguably more useful, approaches to working with women.
