Obesity discourse and fat politics : research, critique and interventions /
Monaghan, Lee F.,1972-
Colls, Rachel,1975-
Evans, Bethan(Geographer)
Actually published in Abingdon, Oxon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: obesity discourse and fat politics: research, critique and interventions /  Lee F. Monaghan, Rachel Colls and Bethan Evans -- Fatuous measures: the artificactual construction of the obesity epidemic / Julie Guthman -- 'Diabesity' down under: overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for type 2 diabetes melitus / Darlene McNaughton -- Resisiting biopedagogies of obesity in a problem population: understandings of healthy eating and healthy weight in a Newfoundland and Labrador community / Deborah McPhail -- 'It's worse for women and girls': negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk / Lee F. Monaghan and Helen Malson -- 'We're kind of devolving': visual tropes of evolution in obesity discourse / Francis Ray White -- 'Must I seize every opportunity?' Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness / Karen Throsby and Bethan Evans -- Theorizing health at every size as a relational-cultural endeavor / Jennifer Brady, Jacqui Gingras and Lucy Aphramor -- Public health pedagogy, border crossings and physical activity at every size / Louise Mansfield and Emma Rich -- Obesity in the media: social science weighs in / Natalie Boero.
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