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Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body

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Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body book

Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body

DOI link for Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body

Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body book

ByHannele Harjunen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 25 August 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583976
Pages 128 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315583976
SubjectsHumanities, Social Sciences
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Harjunen, H. (2017). Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583976

In recent decades the rise of the so-called "global obesity epidemic" has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas. Fatness and fat bodies are shamed and demonised, and the public monitoring, surveillance and outright policing by the media, health professionals, and the general public are pervasive and socially accepted.

In Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body, Hannele Harjunen claims that neoliberal economic policy and rationale are enmeshed with conceptions of body, gender, and health in a profound way in contemporary western culture. She explores the relationships between fatness, health, and neoliberal discourse and the role of economic policy in the construction of the (gendered) fat body, and examines how neoliberal discourses join patriarchal and biomedical constructions of the fat female body. In neoliberal culture the fat body is not just the unhealthy body one finds in medical discourse, but also the body that is costly, unproductive and inefficient, failing in the crucial task of self-management.

With an emphasis on how neoliberal governmentality, in its many forms, affects the fat body and contributes to its vilification, this book is essential reading for scholars of feminist thought, sociology, cultural studies and social theory with interests in the body, gender and the effects of neoliberal discourse on social attitudes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction and personal prologue

chapter 2|13 pages

Neoliberalism, governmentality, and the body

chapter 3|13 pages

The biopolitics of weight and the obesity epidemic

chapter 4|17 pages

The economisation of health and the fat body

chapter 5|12 pages

Healthism and individual responsibility

chapter 6|9 pages

Money for your fat! Moral credit for disappearing fat

chapter 7|12 pages

Postfeminism, fatness, and female body norms

chapter 8|6 pages

Conclusion

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