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Cutting Ties with Pro-Ana: A Narrative Inquiry Concerning the Experiences of Pro-Ana Disengagement from Six Former Site Users.
Firkins, Ashlyn; Twist, Jos; Solomons, Wendy; Keville, Saskia (2019-08-01)Websites advocating the benefits of eating disorders (“Pro-Ana”) tend to reinforce and maintain restrictive eating and purging behaviors. Yet remarkably, no study has explored individual accounts of disengagement from these ... -
Family narratives of lives with persistent physical symptom conditions
Friedner, Kimberley; Solomons, Wendy; Flannery, Halina; Harrington, Jenna (2021-10-01)Background: Literature reviews revealed no existing research on family narratives of living with multigenerational persistent physical symptom (PPS) conditions. The current study examined the personal and family narratives ... -
Narratives of Young People Living with a Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME)
Solomons, Wendy (2017-02-06)CFS/ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is a distressing and potentially debilitating condition. It can also be understood as a contested condition, surrounded by controversy about its nature, causes ... -
Size Acceptance: A Discursive Analysis of Online Blogs
Davenport, Kate; Solomons, Wendy; Puchalska, Sylvia; McDowell, Joanne (2018-09-02)Dominant discourses of “fatness” and “fat people” have implications for physical and mental health. Although alternative discourses such as “size acceptance” exist, there has been little consideration of the ways in which ...