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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dramatis Personae: Introducing Fat, Health and Mass Media
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Fat Hits the Small Screen
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, Jayne Raisborough explores interpretations of fat bodies from Palaeolithic Europe to Poverty Porn TV to argue that fat’s materiality makes it ripe for stigmatising associations. However, especially in a social context that presents health as a matter of choice, fat also emerges as an ideal redemptive substance to be pummelled and starved into submission. This book presents a ‘fat sensibility’ to demonstrate how fat is helping us all become responsibilised healthy-citizens. It asks just what self are we being asked to diet ourselves into?
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jayne Raisborough is Reader at the School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self and co-editor of Risk, Identities and the Everyday. Her current work is an empirical, visual, exploration of women’s negotiations of anti-ageing culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
Authors: Jayne Raisborough
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-28887-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28886-8Published: 06 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28887-5Published: 24 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 187
Topics: Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Culture, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Media Sociology