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Fat planet : obesity, culture, and symbolic body capital /

Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson-Fye, Eileen P. (Editor ), Brewis, Alexandra (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Fe : Albuquerque : School for Advanced Research Press ; University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
Colección:School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Making Sense of the New Global Body Norms / Alexandra Brewis
  • 1: From Thin to Fat and Back Again: A Dual Process Model of the Big Body Mass Reversal / Daniel J. Hruschka
  • 2: Managing Body Capital in the Fields of Labor, Sex, and Health / Alexander Edmonds and Ashley Mears
  • 3: Fat and Too Fat: Risk and Protection for Obesity Stigma in Three Countries / Eileen P. Anderson-Fye, Stephanie M. McClure, Maureen Floriano, Arundhati Bharati, Yunzhu Chen, and Caryl James
  • 4: Excess Gains and Losses: Maternal Obesity, Infant Mortality, and the Biopolitics of Blame / Monica J. Casper
  • 5: Symbolic Body Capital of an "Other" Kind: African American Females as a Bracketed Subunit in Female Body Valuation / Stephanie M. McClure
  • 6: Fat Is a Linguistic Issue: Discursive Negotiation of Power, Identity, and the Gendered Body among Youth / Nicole L. Taylor
  • 7: Body Size, Social Standing, and Weight Management: The View from Fiji / Anne E. Becker
  • 8: Glocalizing Beauty: Weight and Body Image in the New Middle East / Sarah Trainer
  • Conclusion: Fat Matters: Capital, Markets, and Morality / Rebecca J. Lester and Eileen P. Anderson-Fye
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover.