Body image and the Asian experience : Asians, Asian Americans, and Asian diasporas across the globe /
Individuals of Asian descent are a demographic often overlooked in mainstream body image scholarship. Historically, body image concerns were thought to only affect white, upper-to-middle-class women in North America and Western Europe. However, empirical data accumulated in recent decades have subve...
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London ; San Diego, CA :
Academic Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Body image: Past, current, and a need to focus on the Asian experience
- Chapter 2. Conceptual perspectives of body image: Existing frameworks and application to the Asian experience
- Chapter 3. Decolonizing the Asian body: Toward a Time-and-Culture-Centered Ecological Systems Model of Asian Body Image
- Chapter 4. Body image assessment
- Chapter 5. Asian female body image research in the United States and Canada, Part I
- Chapter 6. Asian female body image research in the United States and Canada, Part II
- Chapter 7. Asian female body image research globally, Part I: Asian countries
- Chapter 8. Asian female body image research globally, Part II--Outside of United States and Asia
- Chapter 9. Asian male body image in the United States and across the world
- Chapter 10. LGBTQ+ Asian body image: U.S. and globally
- Chapter 11. Mental health implications: Impact of body image on disordered eating
- Chapter 12. Mental health implications: Impact of body image on mood and other disorders
- Chapter 13. Social implications: Impact of body image on parenting, family, relationships, school, and the use of social media
- Chapter 14. Social implications: Impact of body image on personal and social identities
- Chapter 15. Future directions for research and practice.