The Fat Pedagogy Reader - Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education (Hardcover, New edition)

Over the past decade, concerns about a global "obesity epidemic" have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the "facts" we have come to believe about "obesity". We live in a culture that privileges thinness and enables weight-based oppression, often expressed as fat phobia and fat bullying. New interdisciplinary fields that problematize "obesity" have emerged, including critical obesity studies, critical weight studies, and fat studies. There also is a small but growing literature examining weight-based oppression in educational settings in what has come to be called "fat pedagogy". The very first book of its kind, The Fat Pedagogy Reader brings together an international, interdisciplinary roster of respected authors who share heartfelt stories of oppression, privilege, resistance, and action; fascinating descriptions of empirical research; confessional tales of pedagogical (mis)adventures; and diverse accounts of educational interventions that show promise. Taken together, the authors illuminate both possibilities and pitfalls for fat pedagogy that will be of interest to scholars, educators, and social justice activists. Concluding with a fat pedagogy manifesto, the book lays a solid foundation for this important and exciting new field. This book could be adopted in courses in fat studies, critical weight studies, bodies and embodiment, fat pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, gender and education, critical pedagogy, social justice education, and diversity in education.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Counterpoints, 467
Release date:	March 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Constance Russell • Erin Cameron
Dimensions:	255 x 180 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2568-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Teacher training Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of those with special educational needs > Teaching of physically disabled persons
LSN:	1-4331-2568-4
Barcode:	9781433125683

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