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Debating Obesity

Critical Perspectives

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Emma Rich

    1. University of Bath, UK

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  2. Lee F. Monaghan

    1. University of Limerick, Ireland

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  3. Lucy Aphramor

    1. Coventry University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Contesting Obesity Discourse and Presenting an Alternative

    • Emma Rich, Lee F. Monaghan, Lucy Aphramor
    Pages 1-35

  3. Does Fat Kill? A Critique of the Epidemiological Evidence

    • Paul Campos
    Pages 36-59

  4. Bodily Sensibility: Vocabularies of the Discredited Male Body

    • Lee F. Monaghan, Michael Hardey
    Pages 60-89

  5. ‘You Can’t Be Supersized?’ Exploring Femininities, Body Size and Control within the Obesity Terrain

    • Irmgard Tischner, Helen Malson
    Pages 90-114

  6. Doing More Good than Harm? The Absent Presence of Children’s Bodies in (Anti-)Obesity Policy

    • Bethan Evans, Rachel Colls
    Pages 115-138

  7. Children’s Bodies, Surveillance and the Obesity Crisis

    • Emma Rich, John Evans, Laura De Pian
    Pages 139-163

  8. Fat Lib: How Fat Activism Expands the Obesity Debate

    • Charlotte Cooper
    Pages 164-191

  9. Helping People Change: Promoting Politicised Practice in the Health Care Professions

    • Lucy Aphramor, Jacqui Gingras
    Pages 192-218

  10. Conclusion: Reflections on and Developing Critical Weight Studies

    • Lee F. Monaghan, Emma Rich, Lucy Aphramor
    Pages 219-258

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 259-270
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This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops both theoretical and conceptual arguments around the obesity debate, as well as taking a more practical focus in terms of implications for the health professions to outline an agenda for a 'critical weight studies'.

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'This collection has certainly succeeded inexpressing critical concerns on the obesity discourse and in contributing to the development of critical weight studies.' - Sociology of Health& Illness

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bath, UK

    Emma Rich

  • University of Limerick, Ireland

    Lee F. Monaghan

  • Coventry University, UK

    Lucy Aphramor

About the editors

PAUL CAMPOS is Professor of Law, University of Colorado, USA CHARLOTTE COOPER is a Queer Fat Activist based in London, and currently a Government of Ireland PhD Scholar at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, courtesy of the Irish Social Sciences Platform RACHEL COLLS is Lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University, UK LAURA DE PIAN is a Doctoral Research Student in the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK BETHAN EVANS is Lecturer in Geography and Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK JOHN EVANS is Professor of Sociology of Education and Physical Education at Loughborough University, UK JACQUI GINGRAS is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nutrition, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada HELEN MALSON is a Reader in Social Psychology in the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK IRMGARD TISCHNER is a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Worcester and Associate Member of the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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