Fat Blame
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Fat Blame
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Author : April Michelle Herndon
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2014-06-06
Fat Blame written by April Michelle Herndon and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-06 with Social Science categories.
A four year old Mexican American girl is taken away from her parents because she is obese and experiencing health problems related to her weight. Such a measure, once seen as extreme, quickly comes to be seen as a logical means of addressing a problem viewed as nothing short of child abuse. And yet, for all the purported concern for these children’s welfare, little if any mention is ever made of the psychological ramifications of removing children from their families. They are simply the latest victims of the war on obesity—a war declared on a “disease” but conducted, April Herndon contends in this book, along cultural lines. Fat Blame is a book about how the war on obesity is, in many ways, shaping up to be a battle against women and children, especially women and children who are marginalized via class and race. While conceding that fatness can be linked to certain conditions, or that some populations might be heavier than others, Herndon is more interested in the ways women and children are blamed for obesity and the ways interventions aimed at preventing obesity are problematic in and of themselves. From bariatric surgeries being performed on children to women being positioned as responsible for carrying to term a generation of thin children, her book looks closely at the stories of real people whose lives are drastically altered by interventions that are supposedly for their own good. As with so many practices surrounding bodies and health, like dieting, people are often simultaneously blamed and empowered through policies and interventions, especially those that seem to offer them choices. What Herndon reveals is how such choices only offer the illusion of being empowering. Rather, she shows how woman and children are pushed, pulled, and sometimes victimized by interventions such as bariatric surgeries, limits on reproductive technologies, and having their families broken up by the courts. Only by identifying members of this group as victims of discrimination, she argues, can we hope to return them to a fuller and richer kind of agency. In declaring a war on obesity, the United States has said that fat is one of the most serious enemies it faces. Fat Blame asks us to confront the real enemy—the moral, political, and ideological significance of our every move in this “war.”
Killer Fat
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Author : Natalie Boero
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-12
Killer Fat written by Natalie Boero and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-12 with Social Science categories.
In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, “snack taxes,” and laws to control how fast food companies market to children. As an epidemic, obesity threatens to weaken the health, economy, and might of the most powerful nation in the world. In Killer Fat, Natalie Boero examines how and why obesity emerged as a major public health concern and national obsession in recent years. Using primary sources and in-depth interviews, Boero enters the world of bariatric surgeries, Weight Watchers, and Overeaters Anonymous to show how common expectations of what bodies are supposed to look like help to determine what sorts of interventions and policies are considered urgent in containing this new kind of disease. Boero argues that obesity, like the traditional epidemics of biological contagion and mass death, now incites panic, a doomsday scenario that must be confronted in a struggle for social stability. The “war” on obesity, she concludes, is a form of social control. Killer Fat ultimately offers an alternate framing of the nation’s obesity problem based on the insights of the “Health at Every Size” movement.
What S Wrong With Fat
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Author : Abigail Saguy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-31
What S Wrong With Fat written by Abigail Saguy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Health & Fitness categories.
What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.
Your Fat Is Not Your Fault
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Author : Carol N. Simontacchi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Your Fat Is Not Your Fault written by Carol N. Simontacchi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Self-Help categories.
Don T Blame Mcdonald S Did Mommy Make You Fat
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Author : Don Paullin
language : en
Publisher: Hiring Firing Experts Incorporated
Release Date : 2009-03-01
Don T Blame Mcdonald S Did Mommy Make You Fat written by Don Paullin and has been published by Hiring Firing Experts Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-01 with Health & Fitness categories.
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Your Fat Is Not Your Fault
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Author : Carol Simontacchi
language : en
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date : 1998-12-28
Your Fat Is Not Your Fault written by Carol Simontacchi and has been published by Tarcher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-28 with Health & Fitness categories.
This book presents a healthful and realistic way to eat that is simple to understand and implement, and puts an end to "dieting" days. 17,500.
Fat
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Author : Robert Pool
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-02-15
Fat written by Robert Pool and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-15 with History categories.
When the leptin gene was discovered in 1994, news articles predicted that there might soon be an easy, pharmaceutical solution to the growing public health crisis of obesity. Yet this scientific breakthrough merely proved once again how difficult the fight against fat really is. Despite the many appetite-suppressants, diet pills, and weight-loss programs available today, approximately 30 percent of Americans are obese. And that number is expanding rapidly. Fat is the engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Covering the entire twentieth century, Robert Pool chronicles the evolving blame-game for fat--from being a result of undisciplined behavior to subconscious conflicts, physiological disease, and environmental excess. Readers in today's weight-conscious society will be surprised to learn that being overweight was actually encouraged by doctors and popular health magazines up until the 1930s, when the health risks associated with being overweight were publicly recognized. Thus began decades of research and experiments that subsequently explained appetite, metabolism, and the development of fat cells. Pool effectively reanimates the colorful characters, curious experiments, brilliant insights and wrong turns that led to contemporary scientific understanding of America's epidemic. While he acknowledges the advances in the pharmacological fight against flab, he underscores that the real problem of obesity is not losing the weight but keeping it off. Drugs offer a quick fix, but they aren't the ultimate answer. American society must remedy the unhealthy daily environments of its cities and towns, and those who have struggled with their weight and have experienced the "yo-yo" cycle of dieting must understand the underlying science of body weight that makes their struggle more than a question of willpower.
Your Fat Is Not Your Fault
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Author : Carol Simontacchi
language : en
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date : 1998-12-28
Your Fat Is Not Your Fault written by Carol Simontacchi and has been published by Tarcher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-28 with Health & Fitness categories.
This book presents a healthful and realistic way to eat that is simple to understand and implement, and puts an end to "dieting" days. 17,500.
The Mother Blame Game
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Author : Vanessa Reimer
language : en
Publisher: Demeter Press
Release Date : 2015-11-01
The Mother Blame Game written by Vanessa Reimer and has been published by Demeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with Social Science categories.
The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes “good motherhood” grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized—perhaps now more than ever—for all that is perceived to go “wrong” in their children’s lives. This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of “good motherhood.”
The Fat Studies Reader
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Author : Esther Rothblum
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-11-01
The Fat Studies Reader written by Esther Rothblum and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology Winner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association A milestone anthology of fifty-three voices on the burgeoning scholarly movement—fat studies We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about the "obesity epidemic" stalking the nation are read by a disembodied voice. And we have seen the movies—their obvious lack of large leading actors silently speaking volumes. From the government, health industry, diet industry, news media, and popular culture we hear that we should all be focused on our weight. But is this national obsession with weight and thinness good for us? Or is it just another form of prejudice—one with especially dire consequences for many already disenfranchised groups? For decades a growing cadre of scholars has been examining the role of body weight in society, critiquing the underlying assumptions, prejudices, and effects of how people perceive and relate to fatness. This burgeoning movement, known as fat studies, includes scholars from every field, as well as activists, artists, and intellectuals. The Fat Studies Reader is a milestone achievement, bringing together fifty-three diverse voices to explore a wide range of topics related to body weight. From the historical construction of fatness to public health policy, from job discrimination to social class disparities, from chick-lit to airline seats, this collection covers it all. Edited by two leaders in the field, The Fat Studies Reader is an invaluable resource that provides a historical overview of fat studies, an in-depth examination of the movement’s fundamental concerns, and an up-to-date look at its innovative research.