Emotional eating : women and food - a comforting recipe or a destructive formula?

The aim of this study was to investigate the discourses women use to describe their eating patterns in relation to comfort eating. The idea originated from the work of Susie Orbach (1978) which focussed upon women's eating patterns and 'fat' being rooted in powerlessness and self-deni...

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Main Author: Ashby, Shirley
Published: University of Kent 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633519