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Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic" /

Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zimdars, Melissa, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Televising fatness -- Competing understandings of fatness -- Does TV make you fat? : television as causing and solving the "obesity epidemic" -- The globesity epidemic : adapting weight-loss television around the world -- Exercising control and the illogics of weight-loss television -- Spectacle, sympathy, and the medicalized disease of "obesity" -- Celebrating large bodies on the small screen : from fat visibility to fat positivity -- Conclusion : the decline of The biggest loser. 
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