The 'Fat' Female Body (Hardcover)

Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engaging with dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The 'Fat' Female Body explores the moral panic over the 'obesity epidemic', and the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. It contributes to the emerging field of fat studies by offering not only alternative understandings of subjectivity, the (re)production of public knowledge(s) of 'fatness', and politics of embodiment, but also the possibility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	S. Murray
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-54258-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Health psychology Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal, health & social education (PHSE) > Body & health > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun Promotions
LSN:	0-230-54258-1
Barcode:	9780230542587

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