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Using work produced from the critical and postmodern arena in social sciences, this book examines three key areas - representation, identities and practice - to explore and interrogate how body and weight management, subjectivities, experiences and practices are constituted within and by the normative discourses of contemporary western culture.

SARAH RILEY is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath, UK. Her research is concerned with the areas of identities and research methods. Her identity work draws on social constructionism and post structuralism and has included the topics of masculinity, body art and body management practices. She is the principle investigator for an ESRC project 'Reverberating Rhythms: Social Identity and Political Participation in Clubland' and has published in the area of recreation/dance drug use. Her research methods work has focused on visual methods and reflexivity. MAREE BURNS is the coord