There have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early twenty-first century. This title addresses these developments.

In a world which may appears to be changing at a faster rate than at any time in history how can the social sciences help us to understand what is happening? This book offers an introduction to contemporary debates in the social sciences and to what matters to people in everyday life.

The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center.