MY DISCOURSE/MY-SELF: Therapy as Possibility (for Women Who Eat Compulsively)

Contemporary culture promulgates almost impossible standards of feminine beauty and it is (still) rare for young women not to be obsessed with having a beautiful body and not to feel conflicted around food. Here three helping discourses-NutriSystem, feminist psychoanalytic therapy and Overeaters Anonymous-are analysed from Foucauldian-feminist perspective and differences in the way they empower women are illuminated.