A burgeoning body of literature shows a positive relationship between body functionality and
positive body image. Although still nascent, research centring experiences of people with …

In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at
women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather …

This paper critically reviews how feminist academic psychologists, social scientists, and
media scholars have developed Rosalind Gill's generative construct “postfeminist …

Self-help promises the chance of being “better”. Across multifarious platforms, including
books, apps and television shows, it offers hope that we can be our own agents of change …

Background A range of societal changes have created positive and encouraging
environments for women's alcohol use. Within this context, in Western countries there is …

Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist
and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image, psychology and …

Popular and professional psychology merge to produce novel forms on TikTok—a platform
on which therapeutic content grew enormously during the pandemic, rendering it a …

Research on women's drinking occurs in largely disparate disciplines—including public
health, health promotion, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies—and draws on …

Eating healthily is widely understood as a key way for individuals to achieve and maintain
good health, but how people make sense of what healthy eating involves is more complex …

This review provides an overview of research that explores femininity through the lens of a
postfeminist sensibility. I give an account of two developments that have shaped recent …