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Fat (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Fat (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus
of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining,
regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western
countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are
still socially marginalized, and treated with derision and even
repulsion and disgust. Medical and public health experts continue
to insist that an 'obesity epidemic' exists and that fatness is a
pathological condition which should be prevented and controlled.
Fat is a book about why the fat body has become so reviled and
reviewed as diseased, the target of such intense discussion and
debate about ways to reduce its size down to socially and medically
acceptable dimensions. It is about the lived experience of fat
embodiment: how does it feel to be fat in a fat phobic-society? Fat
activism and obesity politics, and related controversies, are also
discussed. Internationally-renowned sociologist Deborah Lupton
explores fat as a sociocultural artefact: a bodily substance or
body shape that is given meaning by complex and shifting systems of
ideas, practices, emotions, material objects and interpersonal
relationships. This analysis identifies broader preoccupations and
trends in the ways that human bodies and selfhood are experienced
and practised. The second and much expanded edition of Fat is twice
as long as the original edition. Lupton incorporates the very
latest current critical scholarship and research offered in the
humanities and social sciences on fat embodiment and fat politics.
New updated material is presented in every chapter, including
substantial additional sections on new digital media. Fat is a
lively, at times provocative introduction for the general reader,
as well as for students and academics interested in the politics of
embodiment and health.
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