‘If I were thirteen stone I’d be happier’: A narrative analysis of one woman’s story of decades of weight-cycling and dieting
Journal of Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary, International Journal
Published online on February 19, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Health Psychology, Ahead of Print.
Women are disproportionately associated with the body and interpellated into discourses around the ‘slender ideal’. Many spend years ‘dieting’ to attain and maintain this ideal. Using a feminist-informed narrative psychological approach, this study ...
Women are disproportionately associated with the body and interpellated into discourses around the ‘slender ideal’. Many spend years ‘dieting’ to attain and maintain this ideal. Using a feminist-informed narrative psychological approach, this study ...