Our televisions bulge with weight-loss shows, as the news warn of
the obesity epidemic. Fat is such a villain that larger people are
stigmatized and we all are seduced by life-changing claims of a
multi-billion pound diet industry. Yet, when we question if our
bathroom scales can really tell us about our health, we start to
ask just why and how fat holds such fascination. In this book,
Jayne Raisborough explores interpretations of fat bodies from
Palaeolithic Europe to Poverty Porn TV to argue that fat's
materiality makes it ripe for stigmatising associations. However,
especially in a social context that presents health as a matter of
choice, fat also emerges as an ideal redemptive substance to be
pummelled and starved into submission. This book presents a 'fat
sensibility' to demonstrate how fat is helping us all become
responsibilised healthy-citizens. It asks just what self are we
being asked to diet ourselves into?
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