1. Introduction 2. Thinking About Fat: A Review of Different Perspectives 3. Governing Fat Bodies 4. The Transgressive Fat Body 5. Being/Feeling Fat 6. Reframing Fat: Fat Activism and Size Acceptance Politics. Concluding Comments. Bibliography. Webliography. Glossary of Key Terms.
Deborah Lupton is in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney. She is an internationally renowned sociologist and the author/co-author of eleven other books, including Medicine as Culture, Risk, Risk and Everyday Life (with J Tulloch), The Imperative of Health, The New Public Health (with A Petersen) and Food, the Body and the Self. Her current research interests are in the sociocultural dimensions of medicine, public health, embodiment, risk and the family.
'...a book which provides a handy, succinct and lively coverage of
recent developments related to fatness, from medical discourses
including the “obesity epidemic", critical weight studies and fat
activism.' 'Fat is an excellent introduction to the study area: it
is comprehensive, extremely well written and engaging
throughout.... Moreover, the vast range of critical perspectives
given alongside examination of popular culture and political
activism make the text thoroughly relevant and a particularly
worthy starting point for undergraduate readers or those new to the
study of identity.'
-Sarah Burton, University of Glasgow, in the LSE Review of Books,
posted 14 Jan 2013 "Fat is a comprehensive and highly useful
introductory text, based on the most updated literature. It greatly
facilitates our understanding of the complex ways by which fat
stigma and weight bias are enacted in western, contmporary
societies, and the various responses to this reality."— Maya Maor,
Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and
Society
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