130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
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In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized, and treated with derision and even repulsion and disgust. Medical and public health experts continue to... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Thinking about fat: a review of different perspectives
3. Governing fat bodies
4. The transgressive fat body
5. Being/feeling fat
6. Reframing fat: fat activism and size acceptance politics
Biography
Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra. She is an internationally renowned sociologist and the author/co-author of fifteen other books, the latest of which are Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking and Digital Sociology.
