A list of material about culture and body image

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Abrams, L.S. and Stormer, C.C (2002) Sociocultural Variations in the Body Image Perceptions of Urban Adolescent Females, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 31, (6), 443–450.

Altabe, M. (1998) Ethnicity and Body Image: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis,  International  Journal of Eating Disorders, 23, 153–159.

Austin, S.B. (2001) Population-Based Prevention of Eating Disorders: An Application of the Rose Prevention Model Preventive Medicine, 32, 268–283.

Becker, A.E. (2004) Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 28, 533-559.

Becker, A.E. Burwell, R.A., Navara, K. and Gilman, S.E. Binge Eating and Binge Eating Disorder in a Small-Scale, Indigenous Society: The View From Fiji International Journal of Eating Disorders, 34, 423–431.

Benn, T. & Walters, D. (2001) Between Scylla and Charybdis. Nutritional education versus body culture and the ballet aesthetic: the effects on the lives of female dancers Research in Dance Education, 2, (2), 139-154.

Bhugra, D., Bhui, K. & Gupta, K.R. (2000) Bulimic disorders and sociocentric values in north India, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 35, 86-93

Bojorquez I. and Unikel, C. (2004) Presence of Disordered Eating among Mexican Teenage Women from a Semi-Urban Area: Its Relation to the Cultural Hypothesis, European Eating Disorders Review, 12, 197–202.

Cachelin, F.M., Rebeck, R., Veisel, C. and Striegel-Moore, R.H. (2001) Barriers to Treatment for Eating Disorders Among Ethnically Diverse Women International Journal of Eating Disorders, 30, 269–278.

Calogero, R.M., Davis, W.N. and Thompson, J.K. (2005) The Role of Self-Objectification in the Experience of Women with Eating Disorders, Sex Roles, 52, (1/2), 43-50.

Caradas, A., Lambert, E.V. and Charlton, K.E. (2001) An ethnic comparison of eating attitudes and associated body image concerns in adolescent South African schoolgirls Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 14, 111-120.

Crisp, A., Sedgwick, P., Halek, C., Joughlin, N. & Humphrey, H. (1999) Why may teenage girls persist in smoking? Journal of Adolescence, 22, 657-672.

Davis, C. & Katzman, M.A. (1999) Perfection as Acculturation: Psychological Correlates of Eating Problems in Chinese Male and Female Students Living in the United States, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 25, 65-70.

Davis, C., Dionne, M. & Shuster, B. (2001) Physical and psychological correlates of appearance orientation, Personality and Individual Differences, 30, 21-30.

Franko, D.L., Striegel-Moore, R.H,. Barton, B.A., Schumann, B.C., Garner, D.M. Daniels, S.M., Schreiber, G.B. and Crawford,P.B. (2004) Measuring Eating Concerns in Black and White Adolescent Girls, Sex Roles, 52, (1/2), 43-50.

Furnham, A. &· Adam-Saib, S. (2001) Abnormal eating attitudes and behaviours and perceived parental control: a study of white British and British-Asian school girls, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 36, 462–470.

Giles, D.C. (2006) Constructing identities in cyberspace: The case of eating disorders. British Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 463-477.

Giles, D.C., & Close, J. (2008). Exposure to ‘lad magazines’, drive for muscularity in dating and non-dating young men. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 1610-1616.

Grogan, S. & Wainwright, N. (1996) Growing up in the culture of slenderness: Girl's experience of bodily dissatisfaction, Women's Studies International Forum, 19, (6), 665-673.

Gunewardene, A., Huon, G.F., & Zheng, R. (2001) Exposure to Westernization and Dieting: A Cross-Cultural Study International Journal of Eating Disorders, 29, 289-293.

Hesse-Biber, S., Leavy, P., Quinn, C.E. and Zoino, J. (2006) The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders: The social psychology of women, thinness and culture, Women's Studies International Forum, 29, 208–224.

Katzman, M.A. & Lee, S. (1997) Beyond Body Image: The Integration of Feminist and Transcultural Theories in the Understanding of Self Starvation International Journal of Eating Disorders, 22, 385-394.

Lake, A.J., Staiger, P.K. & Glowinski, H. (2000) Effect of Western Culture on Women’s Attitudes to Eating and Perceptions of Body Shape, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 27, 83-89.

Lester, R. (2004) Commentary: Eating disorders and the problem of 'culture in acculturation, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 28, 607–615.

Littlewood, R. (2004) Commentary: Globalization, culture, body image and eating disorders, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 28: 597–602.

Malson , H. (1999) Women under Erasure: Anorexic Bodies in Postmodern Context, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology,  9,  137-153.

Maltby, J., Giles, D.C., Barber, L. & McCutcheon, L.E. (2005) Intense-personal celebrity worship and body image: Evidence of a link among female adolescents. British Journal of Health Psychology, 10, 17-32. 

Miller, M.N & Pumaregia, A.S.G. (2001) Culture and Eating Disorders: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Review, Psychiatry 64, (2), 93-110.

Mond, J.M., · Hay, P.J., · Rodgers, B., · Owen, C. · and Beumont, P.J.V. (2004) Beliefs of women concerning the severity and prevalence of bulimia nervosa, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39, 299–304.

Morgan, J.F., Marsden, P. and Lacey, J.H. (2000) “Spiritual Starvation?”: A Case Series Concerning Christianity and Eating Disorders, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 28, 476–480.

Moulding, N. & Hepworth, (2001) Understanding body image disturbance in the promotion of mental health: A discourse analytic study, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 11, 305-317.

Mumford, D.B. & Choudry, I.Y. (2000) Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Attitudes in Slimming and Fitness Gyms in London and Lahore: A Cross-Cultural Study, European Eating Disorders Review, 8, 217-224.

Murray, S. (1999) Eating Disorders and Criticism of Cultural Ideals, European Eating Disorders Review, 7, 204-212.

Negrin, L. (1999) The Self as Image: A Critical Appraisal of Postmodern Theories of Fashion, Theory, Culture & Society, 16, (3), 99-118.

Newton, M., Boblin, S., Brown, B. and D. Ciliska, D. (2006) Understanding Intimacy for Women with Anorexia Nervosa: A Phenomenological Approach, European Eating Disorders Review, 14, 43–53.

Nowak, M. (1998) The Weight-Conscious Adolescent: Body Image, Food Intake, and Weight-Related Behavior, Journal of Adolescent Health, 6, 389-398.

Ogden, J. & Elder, C. (1998) The Role of Family Status and Ethnic Group on Body Image and Eating Behavior, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 23, 309–315.

Perez, M. and Joiner, T.E. (2003) Body Image Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating in Black and White Women International Journal of Eating Disorders, 33, 342–350.

Pike, K.M. and Borvoy, A. (2004) The rise of eating disorders in Japan: Issues of culture and limitations of the model of Westernization, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 28, 493–531.

Pope, H.G., Olivardia, R., Gruber, A. Borowiecki, J. (1999) Evolving Ideals of Male Body Image as Seen Through Action Toys, .International Journal of  Eating Disorders, 26,  65–72.

Regan, P.C. and Cachelin, F.M. (2006) Binge Eating and Purging in a Multi-Ethnic Community Sample, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 523–526.

Rieger,, E., Touyz, S.W.,  Swain, T. & Beumont, P.J.V. (2001) Cross-Cultural Research on Anorexia Nervosa: Assumptions Regarding the Role of Body Weight, International Journal of  Eating Disorders,  29,  205–215.

Soh, N.L., Touyz, S.W. and Surgenor, L.J. (2006) Eating and Body Image Disturbances Across Cultures: A Review, European Eating Disorders Review, 14, 54–65.

Steinhausen, H-C., Boyadjieva, S., Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, M., Seidel, R., Winkler Metzke, C.H-C. & Steinhausen, S. (2000) A transcultural outcome study of adolescent eating disorders, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 101, 60-66.

Striegel-Moore, R.H. and Franko, D.L. (2003) Epidemiology of Binge Eating Disorder, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 34, S19–S29.

Tiggemann, M. & Ruutel, E. (2001) A cross-cultural comparison of body dissatisfaction in Estonian and Australian young adults and its relationship with media exposure, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 32, (6), 736-742.

Warren, C.S., Gleaves, D.H., Cepeda-Benito, A. Fernandez, M.D.C. and Rodriguez-Ruiz, S. (2005) Ethnicity as a Protective Factor against Internalization of a Thin Ideal and Body Dissatisfaction, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 37, 241–249.

Wassenaar., D., le Grange, D., Winship, J. and Lachenicht, L., (2000) The Prevalence of Eating Disorder Pathology in a Cross-Ethnic Population of Female Students in South Africa, European Eating Disorders Review, 8, 225-236.

White, M.A. & Grilo, C. (2005) Ethnic Differences in the Prediction of Eating and Body Image Disturbances among Female Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 38, 78–84.

Wildes, J.E., Emery, R.E. & Simons, A.D. (2001) The role of ethnicity and culture in the development of eating disturbance and body dissatisfaction: A meta-analytic review, Clinical Psychology Review, 21, (4), 521-551.

Willemsen, E.M.C. & Hoek, H.W. (2006) Sociocultural Factors in the Development of Anorexia Nervosa in a Black Woman, International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 353–355.