Obesity in Canada : Critical Perspectives / Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail, Wendy Mitchinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellison, Jenny, Editor.

McPhail, Deborah, Editor.

Mitchinson, Wendy, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity--Canada.

Obesity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.)

Other Title:

Obésité au Canada : une approche pansociétale pour un Canada en meilleure santé : rapport du Comité sénatorial permanent des Affaires sociales, des sciences et de la technologie. Also published in French under title:

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be "prevented" and "managed." Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book's contributors ask how we measure health and wellness, where our attitudes to obesity develop from, and what the consequences are of naming and targeting those whose body weights do not match our expectations as "obese." A broad survey of the issues surrounding the obesity panic in Canada, it is the first collection of fat studies and critical obesity studies from a distinctly Canadian perspective."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Obesity in Canada / Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail and Wendy Mitchinson

Part One: Critical Perspectives on Obesity Science. 1. Hearing Noises and Noticing Silence: Towards a Critical Engagement with Canadian Body Weight Statistics / Michael Gard

2. "Obesity" as Process: The Medicalization of Fatness by Canadian Researchers, 1971-2010 / Elise Paradis

3. The Geneticization of Aboriginal Diabetes and Obesity: Adding Another Scene to the Story of the Thrifty Gene / Jennifer Poudrier

4. Diabesity or the "Twin Epidemics": Reflections on the Iatrogenic Consequences of Stigmatizing Lifestyle to Reduce the Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus in Canada / Darlene McNaughton and Cynthia Smith

5. Spoon Fed: Learning about "Obesity" in Dietetics / Julie E. Rochefort, Andrea Senchuk, Jennifer Brady and Jacqui Gingras

6. Aboriginal People's Clinical Encounters with Obesity: A Conversation with Barry Interview / Deborah McPhail

Part Two: Who is Responsible for Obesity? 7. Mother Blaming and Obesity: An Alternative Perspective / Wendy Mitchinson

8. Obesity, Risk, and Responsibility: The Discursive Production of the "Ultimate At-Risk Child" / Pamela Ward

9. Obesity Panic, Body Surveillance, and Pedagogy: Elementary Teachers' Response to "Obesity Messaging" / LeAnne Petherick and Natalie Beausoleil

10. Find Your Greatness: Responsibility, Policy and the Problem of Childhood Obesity / Charlene Elliott

Part Three: Representations Of, and Responses To, Obesity. 11. From "FU" to "Be Yourself": Fat Activisms in Canada / Jenny Ellison

12. Having Your Jiggs Dinner and Eating It, Too: Newfoundland Obesity and the Affects of Tradition / Deborah McPhail

13. Screening the Un-Scene: Deconstructing the (Bio)politics of Story Telling in a Canadian Reality Makeover Weight Loss Series / Moss E. Norman, Genevieve Rail and Shannon Jette

14. Fat Authenticity and the Pursuit of Hetero-Romantic Love in Vancouver: The Case of Online Dating / Jacqueline Schoemaker Holmes

Part Four: Inconclusions. 15. "Celebrating Unruly Experiences": Queering Health at Every Size as a Response to the Politics of Postponement / Jennifer Brady and Jacqui Gingras

16. Re-Visioning Fat: From Enforcing Norms to Exploring Possibilities Unique to Different Bodies / Carla Rice.

Notes:

"March 2016."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9781442624252

1442624256

9781442624245

1442624248

OCLC:

949276309

Publisher Number:

10049016 CaOOCEL (Public Documents)