Obesity discourse and fat politics :
research, critique and interventions /
edited by Lee F. Monaghan, Rachel Colls and Bethan Evans.
| Contributors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
London :
Routledge
2014.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: ix, 137 pages ; 26 cm. more |
Table of Contents:
Introduction: obesity discourse and fat politics: research, critique and interventions / Lee F. Monaghan, Rachel Colls and Bethan Evans
Fatuous measures: the artificactual construction of the obesity epidemic / Julie Guthman
'Diabesity' down under: overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for type 2 diabetes melitus / Darlene McNaughton
Resisiting biopedagogies of obesity in a problem population: understandings of healthy eating and healthy weight in a Newfoundland and Labrador community / Deborah McPhail
'It's worse for women and girls': negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk / Lee F. Monaghan and Helen Malson
'We're kind of devolving': visual tropes of evolution in obesity discourse / Francis Ray White
'Must I seize every opportunity?' Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness / Karen Throsby and Bethan Evans
Theorizing health at every size as a relational-cultural endeavor / Jennifer Brady, Jacqui Gingras and Lucy Aphramor
Public health pedagogy, border crossings and physical activity at every size / Louise Mansfield and Emma Rich
Obesity in the media: social science weighs in / Natalie Boero.
Introduction: obesity discourse and fat politics: research, critique and interventions / Lee F. Monaghan, Rachel Colls and Bethan Evans
Fatuous measures: the artificactual construction of the obesity epidemic / Julie Guthman
'Diabesity' down under: overweight and obesity as cultural signifiers for type 2 diabetes melitus / Darlene McNaughton
Resisiting biopedagogies of obesity in a problem population: understandings of healthy eating and healthy weight in a Newfoundland and Labrador community / Deborah McPhail
'It's worse for women and girls': negotiating embodied masculinities through weight-related talk / Lee F. Monaghan and Helen Malson
'We're kind of devolving': visual tropes of evolution in obesity discourse / Francis Ray White
'Must I seize every opportunity?' Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness / Karen Throsby and Bethan Evans
Theorizing health at every size as a relational-cultural endeavor / Jennifer Brady, Jacqui Gingras and Lucy Aphramor
Public health pedagogy, border crossings and physical activity at every size / Louise Mansfield and Emma Rich
Obesity in the media: social science weighs in / Natalie Boero.