ABSTRACT
The essays I gathered provide stark evidence that regardless of weight category – underweight, overweight, obese, and even normal – the biocitizenship approach is not only producing healthy weights but it has also remade individual subjectivity and is doing real damage to America’s selves, psyches, families, and especially to its young people. While others have made related points in other, especially non-American, contexts, what is new here is the connection of theories of biocitizenship to the real-life experiences of a relatively large number of people and viewing the formation of weight-based subjectivities through the eyes of the subjects themselves.
