The 'Fat' Female Body [electronic resource] / by S. Murray.

Murray, S.
The 'Fat' Female Body
EK/753
Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9780230584419 978-0-230-58441-9
Yer Numarası
EK/753
Yazar
Murray, S.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2008.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VIII, 196 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engaging with dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The 'Fat' Female Body explores the moral panic over the 'obesity epidemic', and the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. It contributes to the emerging field of fat studies by offering not only alternative understandings of subjectivity, the (re)production of public knowledge(s) of 'fatness', and politics of embodiment, but also the possibility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations.
Konu
Sex.
Clinical health psychology.
Communication.
Culture __ Study and teaching.
Human body __ Social aspects.
Medical sciences.
Gender Studies.
Health Psychology.
Media and Communication.
Cultural Studies.
Sociology of the Body.
Health Sciences.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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