Fat
By: Deborah Lupton
Series: Short cuts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780415524438; 9780415524445; 9780203100653
Subjects: Social aspects; Epidemiology; Obesity
Description: "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 of fat 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. Fat 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 acceptance movement"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Thinking about fat: a review of different perspectives; title: Governing fat bodies; title: The transgressive fat body; title: Being/feeling fat; title: Reframing fat: fat activism and size acceptance politics.