ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Feminist, transformative, and embodied methods of inquiry as they may be helpful in both better understanding women's experiences of their bodies and their experiences of eating disorders and body shame. The women felt scared, baffled, enraged, and isolated by their deeply felt and embodied experiences. There is a need for methodological innovation that goes beyond language and looks with interest at exploring various aspects of bodily life and embodied experience. Efforts to "embody" qualitative methodology have largely mirrored the goals and processes of qualitative research on embodied reflexivity. R. Chadwick writes that "embodied methodologies need to be able to make sense of the embodied energies alive in talk and stories and of experiences as lived and felt in the flesh. The development of embodied methodologies should be centered upon ways of accessing and capturing the living energies flowing in and through the visceral channels of storytelling.
