Fat shame
Subtitle: stigma and the fat body in American culture
By: Amy Erdman Farrell
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780814727683; 9780814727690; 9780814728345
Subjects: Body image; Discrimination against overweight persons; Stigma (Social psychology); Physical-appearance-based bias
Description: Locating the origins of the cultural denigration of fatness in the mid 19th century, Amy Erdman Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body preceded any health concerns about a large body size. Farrell draws on a wide array of sources, including political cartoons, popular literature, postcards, advertisements, and physician's manuals to explore the link between our historic denigration of fatness and our contemporary concern over obesity. She explores the ways that those who seek to shed stigmatized identities, whether of gender, race, ethnicity or class, often take part in weight reduction schemes and fat mockery in order to validate themselves as "civilized."--[book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Considering fat shame; title: Fat, modernity, and the problem of excess; title: Fat and the un-civilized body; title: Feminism, citizenship, and fat stigma; title: Narrating fat shame; title: Refusing to apologize; title: Conclusion : the horror, the horror.