Fat shame : stigma and the fat body in American culture / Amy Erdman Farrell.

Author
Farrell, Amy Erdman [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, NY : New York University Press, ©2011.
Description
x, 209 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

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    Locating the origins of the cultural denigration of fatness in the mid 19th century, Amy Erdman Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body preceded any health concerns about a large body size. Farrell draws on a wide array of sources, including political cartoons, popular literature, postcards, advertisements, and physician's manuals to explore the link between our historic denigration of fatness and our contemporary concern over obesity. She explores the ways that those who seek to shed stigmatized identities, whether of gender, race, ethnicity or class, often take part in weight reduction schemes and fat mockery in order to validate themselves as "civilized."--[book cover]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Considering fat shame
    • Fat, modernity, and the problem of excess
    • Fat and the un-civilized body
    • Feminism, citizenship, and fat stigma
    • Narrating fat shame
    • Refusing to apologize
    • Conclusion : the horror, the horror.
    Other title(s)
    • Stigma and the fat body in American culture
    • Stigma & the fat body in American culture
    ISBN
    • 9780814727683 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
    • 0814727689 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780814727690 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
    • 0814727697 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2010047480
    OCLC
    682920779
    Other standard number
    • 40019237041
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