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Weighty Problems : Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp /
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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Embodied Inequality, Childhood Obesity, and the "Problem Child"
- 2. Studying Camp Odyssey
- 3. Learning Embodied Inequality through Social Comparisons
- 4. "It's Not a Fat Camp": The Decision to Attend Camp
- 5. "They Were Born Lucky": Weight Attribution among the Campers
- 6. Change Your Body, Change Yourself: Camp Resocialization
- 7. The Benefits of Weight Loss Camp . . . and the Dark Side
- 8. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author