Feminist theory encourages and acknowledges that change occurs in the context of relationships.  The emphasis is on autonomy, independence, and separation and the denigration of interdependence.  The idealization of the thin body shape and rejection of the rounded female body is addressed and the despair caused by trauma is provided a voice.

Symptom are often understandable coping strategies that have adaptation and resistance to disruptive and oppressive contexts.  It legitimizes and validates these struggles that are being expressed through disorder eating patterns.  Supporting and cherishing new options of behavior and experience such as owning appetites, desires, anger, power, talents, and ambition.  These alternatives are created by putting a voice to the previously unspeakable.   Prejudices must be addressed as creating alternatives and the therapist must be open to her own embodied oppression and privileges.  Feminist therapists work to affect social transformation aimed at equitable social conditions for women and other oppressed groups.  These efforts can include being educational or political.

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