Status of Women committee  Okay. Sorry. I'm not certain that's a good solution, because it just continues to put the female body as sort of the object of our surveillance and of our regulation. We need to be thinking at a very basic level about how we socialize girls to have another relationship with the

Status of Women committee  Wow, that is such a great question in terms of both prevention and treatment. I can't give you a good answer to that question right now. I don't know that there is. I really don't know that there is. To come back to this question about banning certain kinds of images, such as

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We saw sort of the death knell of a few organizations like MediaWatch and other similar organizations. I'm not sure when those organizations folded, but it happened in recent years. We desperately need watchdog organizations attending to the kinds of images that are c

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We live in an increasingly image-oriented, visual culture where our identities in many ways get reduced to our physical identity, especially when we're in adolescence where looks and appearance become something that's of primary importance. We actively work to const

Status of Women committee  I don't feel one hundred per cent prepared to answer that question.

Status of Women committee  This suggests that we need to develop stronger relationships with individuals with lived experience to truly understand what is working and not working. Centring the experiences of people who have and have not received treatment, in a wide variety of settings, would entail deeply

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. I think that's a very good question. I think that one of the reasons that eating disorders are so disproportionately experienced by girls and women is because of the objectification of women, where women are positioned as the object of the c

Status of Women committee  I think that's a start. I think that as a broader culture though, that child is going to be socialized and acclimatized to what kind of gender role is expected of them when they go to day care, and when they go to school later on. Keeping magazines out of the house and turning of

Status of Women committee  For those whose bodies do not fit neatly into the stereotypes, help-seeking can be met with confusion and assumptions. Taking the example of the women involved in our studies, significant struggles went unrecognized as providers read their bodies as “normal”. This suggests that b

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for inviting us to speak here today. My name is Dr. Carla Rice. I'm a Canada research chair at the University of Guelph where I research problems of embodiment, including eating disorders and obesity.

Status of Women committee  In my 20 plus years of experience working in this area—formerly as the manager of the National Eating Disorder Information Centre in the late eighties and early nineties; later as a clinician at Women’s College Hospital, where I worked with women who were struggling with a full r

Status of Women committee  I do not think it is about changing the entire system or about reinventing the wheel. Rather than overhauling a system that may be helping many individuals and that is evidence-based, we recommend the development of an alternate system of community-based treatment and support. Th