Weighty issues
Subtitle: fatness and thinness as social problems
By: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer, editors.
Contributors: Sobal, Jeffery, 1950-; Maurer, Donna, 1961-
Series: Social problems and social issues
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter; Routledge; Aldine De Gruyter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hawthorne, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Obesity -- Social aspects; Food -- Social aspects; Nutrition -- Social aspects; Obesity; Prejudice; Social Perception
Description: "Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem: when, then, does body weight become a social problem?".

"The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness. The contributors consider historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives. These different perspectives illustrate the multifaceted nature of obesity and eating disorders, providing examples of how a variety of social groups construct weight as a social problem."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin -- David Smith and Sally Horrocks; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin -- David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Nita Mary McKinley; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin -- David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Nita Mary McKinley -- John Germov and Lauren Williams; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin -- David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Nita Mary McKinley -- John Germov and Lauren Williams -- Martha McCaughey; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin -- David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Nita Mary McKinley -- John Germov and Lauren Williams -- Martha McCaughey -- S. Bryn Austin; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin -- David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Nita Mary McKinley -- John Germov and Lauren Williams -- Martha McCaughey -- S. Bryn Austin -- Ellen S. Parham; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Peter N. Stearns -- Paula Saukko -- Mark T. Hamin -- David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Nita Mary McKinley -- John Germov and Lauren Williams -- Martha McCaughey -- S. Bryn Austin -- Ellen S. Parham -- Donna Maurer; title: Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer-- Peter N. Stearns-- Paula Saukko-- Mark T. Hamin-- David Smith and Sally Horrocks-- Nita Mary McKinley-- John Germov and Lauren Williams-- Martha McCaughey-- S. Bryn Austin-- Ellen S. Parham-- Donna Maurer-- Jeffery Sobal.