Publications


Manuals and Handbooks

Dr. Carla Rice has authored and collaborated to create many manuals and handbooks on body image and related issues. Some of these are available for downloading from this website. Others can be ordered from organizations with links below. Her publications centre on four major themes:

Body Image, Disability, and Physical Difference

Talking about Body Image, Identity, Disability, and Difference: A Facilitator’s Manual (July 2003)


This facilitator’s manual explores body image and identity issues experienced by many women living with disabilities and physical differences in a culture that rejects body differences. The handbook gives women’s practical tools to cultivate a preferred identity through incorporating a positive view of difference into their sense of identity. 

Click to download a copy the facilitators manual!



Building Bridges across Difference and Disability: A Guide for Health Care Providers (September 2002)


Building Bridges across Difference and Disability is designed to assist health care providers in increasing their comfort and competency in interactions with people with disabilities and physical differences. The guide gives providers practical tools to enhance their communication, approach/stance, and sensitivity to boundaries in interactions with people living with body differences.

Click to download a copy of the Building Bridges guide for health care providers!


To order your own copies of Building Bridges across Disability and Difference: A Guide for Health Providers and Talking About Body Image, Identity, Difference and Disability: A Facilitator's Manual contact AboutFace International Click here.
If you would like some suggestions to enhance your comfort and competency in interactions with people with disabilities and physical differences check here for Tip Sheet for providers.

“If you would like some suggestions for choosing a health provider or for steps to take if you are concerned that your health needs are not being met check here for Tip Sheet for Clients.


Face Values: Women, Body Image, and Facial Differences


Face Values is for everyone concerned with body image, diversity, and social values. It explores first person stories of women with facial differences, the effects of others’ reactions to their differences, and ways to address social intolerance of differences. While acknowledging serious stresses connected with having a physical difference, it examines how women can develop satisfying self-images through discovering the positive aspects of living with physical differences.

Click to order your copy of Face Values go to Education Wife Assault at:
http://www.womanabuseprevention.com/html/face_values.htm



Body Diversity and Equity in Schools

EmBodying Equity: Body Image as an Equity Issue (September 2002)


Traditionally, the word body image conjures up images of fat and thin, size and shape, dieting, and eating disorders. But, how we feel, what we do, and who we are inside our own skin encompasses much more than that. Body image is about personal histories, our race, our culture, our gender, our sexual orientation, our class, and our ability. Embodying Equity is a creative and innovative practical resource, which addresses the intersections of body image, identity, oppression, and equality. With a blend of theory and over fifty practical interactive exercises, this resource will help teachers and community workers empower young people to move toward a place of social action.


To order this handbook go to Green Dragon Press:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/equity.greendragonpress/




Mainstreaming Body Equity (September 2001)


This research review reports on developmental and sociocultural processes influencing the emergence of body image dissatisfaction and eating problems in 4 to 14 year old girls. The report makes recommendations for body image curriculum from pre-school to the transition years.

For more information on this report and resulting curricula commissioned by the Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario click here.



Healthy Body Image Throughout Women's Lives

Promoting Healthy Body Image: A Guide for Program Planners (June 1995)


Promoting Healthy Body Image presents a literature survey on body image, weight problems and preoccupations, and low birth weight, as well as health promotion project ideas and activities. In the past 10 years, educators and program planners have applied this resource to diverse populations and settings. Available in English and French.

Click here to download English version of this manual! 
Click here to download French version of this manual!



Eating Problems and Problems of Embodiment

Dr. Rice co-authored the following resources on eating disorders while working as director of the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC).

An Introduction to Food and Weight Problems


A book describing definitions, the obsession with thinness, eating disorders as coping strategies, overcoming weight obsession, a guide for family and friends, finding help.

Eating Disorders: An Overview


A manual providing extensive background information on the causes, treatment and biology of eating disorders.

Understanding and Overcoming an Eating Disorder


A manual exploring the thoughts and feelings of a person with an eating disorder; provides practical information and suggests alternative coping strategies.

These resources are distributed through the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC). Click here to order:
http://www.nedic.ca/store/celebratorymaterials.shtml



Journal Articles

Rice, C. (n.d., in press). Imagining the other? Ethical challenges of researching and writing women’s embodied lives. Feminism & Psychology.
http://fap.sagepub.com/current.dtl




Rice, C. (2007). Becoming the fat girl: Emergence of an unfit identity. Women’s Studies International Forum, 30(2), 158-174.
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Rice, C. (2006). On becoming “the fat girl.” In D. Gustafson and L. Goodyear (Eds.), Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE) Institute 6th Bi-Annual Conference. Healthy Girls, Healthy Women: Promoting Health and Healthy Educational Communities (pp. 240-254). St. John’s Newfoundland: Faculty of Medicine, Division of Community Health and Humanities, Memorial University.
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Larkin, J. & Rice, C. (2005). Beyond “Healthy Eating” and “Healthy Weights”: Harassment and the health curriculum in middle school girls. Body Image, 2(3), 219-232.
http://top25.sciencedirect.com/?journal_id=17401445




Rice, C., Zitzelsberger, H., Porch, W., & Ignagni, E. (2005). Envisioning new meanings of disability and difference. International Journal of Narrative Counselling and Community Work, 3 & 4, 119-130.
http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/intjournal.html




Rice, C., Zitzelsberger, H., Porch, W., & Ignagni, E. (2005). Creating community across disability and difference. Canadian Woman Studies, 24(1), 187-193.
http://www.yorku.ca/cwscf/health.html



Rice, C. (1996). Trauma and eating problems: Expanding the debate. Eating Disorders: A Journal of Prevention and Treatment, 4(3), 197-237.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10640266.asp




Larkin, J., Rice, C. & Russell, V. (1996). Slipping through the cracks: Sexual harassment, eating problems and the problem with embodiment. Eating Disorders: A Journal of Prevention and Treatment, 4(2), 5-26.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10640266.asp




Rice, C. & Russell, V. (1996). EmBodying Equity: Putting body and soul into equity education, Part I: How oppression is embodied. Our Schools, Ourselves, 7(1), 14-36.

Rice, C. & Russell, V. (1996). EmBodying Equity: Putting body and soul into equity education, Part II: Strategies for change. Our Schools, Ourselves, 7(2), 42-54.

Rice, C. (1995). Trauma, eating problems, and the problem of embodiment. Bibliography Series Number 3. OISE, Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, Toronto, 2-54.
http://www1.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/wrpub.html

Rice, C. (1994). Out from under occupation: Transforming our relationships with our bodies. Canadian Woman Studies, 14(3), 44-51.
http://www.yorku.ca/cwscf/back.html




Rice, C. & Langdon, L. (1993). Women's struggles with food and weight as survival strategies. Canadian Woman Studies, 12(1), 30-34.
http://www.yorku.ca/cwscf/

Rice, C. (1991). Pandora's box and cultural paradox: (Hetero)sexuality, lesbianism and bulimia. Resources for Feminist Research, 19(3&4). 
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/rfr/pages/journal.html#back

Rice. C. (1990). Deconstructing body image: Using memory to understand food and weight issues for women. SEICCAN Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 5(3).  
http://www.sieccan.org/


Book Chapters

Rice, C. (in press). Exacting beauty: Exploring women’s body projects and problems in the 21st century. In N. Mandell (Ed.), Feminist issues: Race, class and sexuality (5th Edition). Toronto: Pearson Canada, Inc.
http://vig.pearsoned.ca/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0135146682,00.html




 Rice, C. (in press). How big girls become fat girls: The cultural production of problem eating and physical inactivity. In H. Malson & M. Burns (Eds.), Critical feminist approaches to eating dis/orders. London and New York: Psychology Press
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Rice, C., Zitszelsberger, H., Porch, W., & Ignagni, E. (in press). T. Titchkosky and R. Michalko (Eds.) Re-thinking normalcy: A disability studies reader, Toronto, Canadian Scholars Press.

Rice, C. (2006). Out from under occupation: Transforming our relationships with our bodies. In Canadian woman studies: An introductory reader, Second Edition. Toronto: Inanna Publications and Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme.
http://www.yorku.ca/inanna/index.html

Larkin, J. & Rice, C. (2006). Harassment and body regulation: Broadening the focus of body image education for girls. In Leach, F. & Mitchell, C. (Eds.), Gender violence in and around schools—Strategies for change, (accepted)

Larkin, J. & Rice, C. (2006). Harassment and harmful body practices: Broadening the focus of body image education for girls. In F. Leach & C. Mitchell (Eds.) Combating gender violence in and around schools: International perspectives (pp. 125-133). Stoke on Trent, UK and Sterling, USA: Trentham Books.
http://styluspub.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=130558




Rice, C. (2005). Beauty, ability and growing up female. In B. Crow & L. Gottell, (Eds.), Open boundaries: A Canadian women's studies reader, (pp. 320-332). Toronto: Pearson.


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Rice, C. (2004). Mon corps est un champ de bataille. In Ma Colère, (Eds.), Mon corps est un champ de bataille: Analyses et témoignages, (pp. 58-106). Lyon, FR: Éditions ma colère.


http://ma.colere.free.fr/corps/macolere.pdf
 http://ma.colere.free.fr/corps/
http://nopasaran.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=979
Rice, C. (2002). Between body and culture. In V. Dhruvarajan & J. Vickers (Eds.), Gender, race and nation: A global perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 147-183.


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Zitzelsberger, H., Odette, F., Rice, C., Whittington-Walsh, F., & Aubin, A. (2002). Building bridges across physical difference and disability. In Sharon Abbey (Ed.), Ways of knowing in and through the body. Weland Ontario: Soleil Publishing.
http://www.soleilpublishing.com/solinden.htm

Larkin, J., Rice, C. & Russell, V. (1999). Sexual harassment and the prevention of eating disorders: Educating young women. In N. Piran, C. Steiner-Adair, & M. Levine (Eds.), Preventing eating disorders: A handbook of interventions and special challenges, (pp. 194-208). New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Ciliska, D. & Rice, C. (1994). Body image/Body politics. In E. Dua, M. FitzGerald, L. Gardner, D. Taylor, & L. Wyndels (Eds.), On women healthsharing. (pp. 225-233). Toronto: The Women’s Press.

Rice, C. (1994). Through another eye: Learning to love our bodies and ourselves. Lesbian health guide. Toronto: Queer Press.

Rice, C. & Faulkner., J. (1992). Support and self-help groups. In H. Harper-Guiffre & R. MacKenzie (Eds.), Group psychotherapy for eating disorders. American Psychiatric Press, Washington.


Invited Articles


Rice, C. (2006, January). Body image matters. http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/ and www.dove.ca/doveselfesteemfund/whyselfesteem. (submitted and accepted, August 31, 2005).

Rice, C. (2005). Becoming the “Fat Girl”. Health Studies Showcase 2005. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Health Studies Institute, Trent University.

Rice, C. & Russell, V. (2004). Embodying equity: Creating a space for the body in equity education. Orbit: A Publication of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education 34(1), 19-20.
 Click here to read article!

Rice, C. (1997). Body image across the life span. Iranian Women Quarterly Journal, 12(2). (In Persian).

Rice, C. & Russell, V. (1997). From body image to body equity: Teaching at the intersection of equity and health. Orbit: A Publication of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 28(1), 21-24.

Rice, C. (1993). Freeing future generations: Raising our children without food and weight problems. Nutrition Quarterly, 17(3), 55-71.

Rice, C. (1991, Fall). Women, food and weight: New perspectives. Women's Counselling Referral and Education Centre Newsletter, 1-4.

Rice. C. (1991). A review of “Never Too Thin” by E. Szekely. Resources for Feminist Research, 19 (3&4). 

Rice, C. & Langdon, L. (1991). The use and misuse of diagnostic labels. The NEDIC Bulletin, 6(1), 1-4. 

Rice, C. (1990, Fall). Getting cut down to size: How cosmetic and weight loss surgeries are harming women. Hersize Newsletter, 1-4.

Rice, C. (1990, Fall). The unkindest cut of all. The Womanist.

Rice, C. (1988). The prevention of eating disorders. The NEDIC Bulletin, 3(4), 1-4.

Rice, C. (1988, May). The creation of fat phobia. Mediawatch Bulletin.

Rice, C. (1987, December). Society's obsession with thinness. The NEDIC Bulletin, 1-4.

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