ABSTRACT
‘Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue’. A feminist intervention needs to work at constructing alternatives instead of thinking within such a binary opposition. A feminist intervention needs to work at constructing alternatives instead of thinking within such a binary opposition. The terms ‘fat’, as well as ‘thin’, are both assumed as given and are used repeatedly throughout the text. The terms ‘fat’, as well as ‘thin’, are both assumed as given and are used repeatedly throughout the text. This repetition has the effect of solidifying a social opposition set up by forms of media practice and the diet industry. A disease model is assumed because an abberration from an organic norm is implied. The logical conclusion of this position is that ‘fat’ is an unnatural pathological state for women.
