Fat / Deborah Lupton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lupton, Deborah.

Series:

Short cuts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity.

Obesity--Epidemiology.

Obesity--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 123 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

In contemporary western societies the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and treated with derision and even repulsion. Medical arid public health experts insist that an 'obesity epidemic' exists and that fatness is a pathological condition which should be prevented and controlled.

Fat is a book about why the fat body has become so reviled and viewed as diseased, the target of such intense discussion and debate about ways to reduce its size down to socially and medically acceptable dimensions. It is also about the lived experience at embodiment: how does it feel to be fat in a fat-phobic society? Deborah Lupton explores fat as a cultural artefact: a. bodily substance or body shape that is given meaning by complex and shifting systems of ideas, practices, emotions, material objects and interpersonal relationships.

Far reviews current scholarship and research into obesity discourse and politics, drawing upon critical perspectives offered in the humanities and social sciences and by fat activism and the size movement. It will be an engaging introduction for the interested general reader, as well as for students across the humanities and social sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Thinking about fat: a review of different perspectives

Governing fat bodies

The transgressive fat body

Being/feeling fat

Reframing fat: fat activism and size acceptance politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [110]-119) and index.

ISBN:

041552444X

9780415524438

0415524431

9780415524445

9780203100653

0203100654

OCLC:

768171478

Publisher Number:

99951523226