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      Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics
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      Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics

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      Research, Critique and Interventions

      Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics

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      Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics book

      Research, Critique and Interventions
      Edited ByLee Monaghan, Rachel Colls, Bethan Evans
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 11 January 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315795645
      Pages 144
      eBook ISBN 9781315795645
      Subjects Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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      Monaghan, L., Colls, R., & Evans, B. (Eds.). (2014). Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics: Research, Critique and Interventions (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315795645

      ABSTRACT

      There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity across an increasing range of national contexts. Alarmist claims about an ‘obesity time-bomb’ are continually recycled in policy reports, reviews and white papers, each of which begin with the assumption that fatness is fundamentally unhealthy and damaging to national economies. With contributions from the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia, this book offers alternative critical perspectives on this alleged public health crisis which were, in part, developed through an Economic and Social Research Council seminar series on Fat Studies and Health at Every Size (HAES). Written by scholars from a range of disciplines and the health professions, themes include: an interrogation of statistical procedures used to construct the obesity epidemic, overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for Type 2 diabetes, understandings of healthy eating and healthy weight in a ‘problem’ population, gendered expectations on men and women to lose weight, the visual representation of obesity, tensions when researching (anti-)fatness, critical dietitians’ engagement with HAES, alternative ways of promoting physical activity, and representations of obesity in the media.

      This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|14 pages

      Introduction: Obesity discourse and fat politics: research, critique and interventions

      ByLee F. Monaghan, Rachel Colls, Bethan Evans

      chapter 2|11 pages

      Fatuous measures: the artifactual construction of the obesity epidemic

      ByJulie Guthman

      chapter 3|15 pages

      ‘Diabesity’ down under: overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for type 2 diabetes mellitus

      ByDarlene McNaughton

      chapter 4|15 pages

      Resisting biopedagogies of obesity in a problem population: understandings of healthy eating and healthy weight in a Newfoundland and Labrador community

      ByDeborah McPhail

      chapter 5|16 pages

      ‘It’s worse for women and girls’: negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk

      ByLee F. Monaghan, Helen Malson

      chapter 6|11 pages

      ‘We’re kind of devolving’: visual tropes of evolution in obesity discourse

      ByFrancis Ray White

      chapter 7|14 pages

      ‘Must I seize every opportunity?’ Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness

      ByKaren Throsby, Bethan Evans

      chapter 8|11 pages

      Theorizing health at every size as a relational–cultural endeavour

      ByJennifer Brady, Jacqui Gingras, Lucy Aphramor

      chapter 9|15 pages

      Public health pedagogy, border crossings and physical activity at every size

      ByLouise Mansfield, Emma Rich

      chapter 10|10 pages

      Obesity in the media: social science weighs in

      ByNatalie Boero
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