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Weighty Problems - Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp (Paperback)
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Weighty Problems - Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp (Paperback)
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Many parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity
is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from
debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to
fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how
contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are
experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat
stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences
of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied
inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related
to their body size, how they explained the causes of those
differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their
lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program
impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied
inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of
interactional processes including resocialization, stigma
management, social comparisons, and attribution.
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