Masculinities and Mental Health
Masculinities and Mental Health explores literary texts, images, and performances which engage with the under-explored topic of eating disorders in men. Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses commonly associated with females only. The fact that men can suffer from anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating...
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2026
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| description | Masculinities and Mental Health explores literary texts, images, and performances which engage with the under-explored topic of eating disorders in men. Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses commonly associated with females only. The fact that men can suffer from anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, and other types of eating disorders too, presents a challenge not only to healthcare disciplines but also to public and cultural perceptions. Exploring eating disorders in boys and men, this book scrutinizes standardised concepts of masculinity and male mental health in contemporary discourse. It sets out to open up spaces for underrepresented experiences recognizing the urgency of this endeavour both as a matter of public health and as a challenge to entrenched cultural assumptions about who can develop, experience, and recover from an eating disorder. Drawing on clinical, socio-cultural, historical, and lived experience perspectives, the interdisciplinary author team aims to fill the gaps often left by single-discipline work. Emphasizing the plural of masculinities , the book explores how stereotypes of ‘manly’ strength or stoicism can obscure vulnerabilities and marginalize those whose experiences fall outside a normative script. It places personal accounts by boys and men with eating disorders, expressed through writing and other art forms, centre-stage. The volume offers readers living testimonies that challenge and enrich our understanding of diagnostic categories, as well as the ways in which eating disorders, masculinity, and male embodiment are manifested. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1772112026-06-06T05:27:55Z Masculinities and Mental Health Bartel, Heike Downs, James Paslakis, Georgios Men's body image Psychiatric illness stigma Gendered health norms Qualitative health narratives Sport and disordered eating Male sexuality and identity Cultural perceptions of male eating disorders thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKZ Therapy and therapeutics::MKZD Eating disorders and therapy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Masculinities and Mental Health explores literary texts, images, and performances which engage with the under-explored topic of eating disorders in men. Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses commonly associated with females only. The fact that men can suffer from anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, and other types of eating disorders too, presents a challenge not only to healthcare disciplines but also to public and cultural perceptions. Exploring eating disorders in boys and men, this book scrutinizes standardised concepts of masculinity and male mental health in contemporary discourse. It sets out to open up spaces for underrepresented experiences recognizing the urgency of this endeavour both as a matter of public health and as a challenge to entrenched cultural assumptions about who can develop, experience, and recover from an eating disorder. Drawing on clinical, socio-cultural, historical, and lived experience perspectives, the interdisciplinary author team aims to fill the gaps often left by single-discipline work. Emphasizing the plural of masculinities , the book explores how stereotypes of ‘manly’ strength or stoicism can obscure vulnerabilities and marginalize those whose experiences fall outside a normative script. It places personal accounts by boys and men with eating disorders, expressed through writing and other art forms, centre-stage. The volume offers readers living testimonies that challenge and enrich our understanding of diagnostic categories, as well as the ways in which eating disorders, masculinity, and male embodiment are manifested. 2026-06-06T05:27:53Z 2026-06-06T05:27:53Z 2026-06-05T14:16:30Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260605T151935_9781040466599_6 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113970 9781040466599 9781003185512 9781040697511 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177211 eng Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113970/1/9781040466599.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003185512 10.4324/9781003185512 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 f69fd04c-edc4-4f42-a50a-d292e8db0dc9 4c0c0c72-854a-4692-aa5c-12ec2339edf8 9781040466599 9781003185512 9781040697511 Routledge 206 Oxford [...] UK Research and Innovation UKRI 10.13039/100014013 open access |
| spellingShingle | Men's body image Psychiatric illness stigma Gendered health norms Qualitative health narratives Sport and disordered eating Male sexuality and identity Cultural perceptions of male eating disorders thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKZ Therapy and therapeutics::MKZD Eating disorders and therapy thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Bartel, Heike Downs, James Paslakis, Georgios Masculinities and Mental Health |
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