Fat
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 a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-02900-1
- EAN: 9781351029001
- Produktnummer: 31322475
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 130 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 436 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
Über den Autor
Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra. She is an internationally renowned sociologist and the author/co-author of fifteen other books, the latest of which are Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking and Digital Sociology.
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