Heavy Burdens - Stories of Motherhood and Fatness (Paperback)

Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around 'obesity' impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-course approach, the book begins with analyses of the ways in which fatphobia is enacted on pregnant (or even not-yet-pregnant) women, whose bodies immediately become viewed as objects warranting external control by not only medical professionals, but family members, and even passers-by. The story unfolds as adults recount childhood stories of growing up fat, or growing up in fear of being fat, and how their mothers' relationships with their own bodies and attempted weight-loss experiences shaped how food, exercise, and body management were approached in their homes in sometimes harmful ways. Finally, the book concludes with stories of women who have since become mothers, examining the ways in which having their own children altered their views on their own bodies and their perceptions of their mothers' actions, and working to find fat-friendly futures via their own parenting (or grand-parenting) techniques.

General

Imprint:	Demeter Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 2018
Editors:	Judy Verseghy • Sam Abel
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	195
ISBN-13:	978-1-77258-174-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-77258-174-7
Barcode:	9781772581744

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