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Fat shame : stigma and the fat body in American culture / Amy Erdman Farrell.
Author
Farrell, Amy Erdman
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English
Published/Created
New York, NY : New York University Press, ©2011.
Description
x, 209 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
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BF697.5.B63 F37 2011
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Body image
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Stigma (Social psychology)
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Discrimination against overweight persons
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Physical-appearance-based bias
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Summary note
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]
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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.
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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
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40019237041
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