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- About this book
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Our televisions bulge with weight-loss shows, as the news warn of the obesity epidemic. Fat is such a villain that larger people are stigmatized and we all are seduced by life-changing claims of a multi-billion pound diet industry. Yet, when we question if our bathroom scales can really tell us about our health, we start to ask just why and how fat holds such fascination.
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? - About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction: Fat, the Media, and a Fat Sensibility
Pages 1-22
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The Matter of Fat
Pages 25-50
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Fat Gets Melodramatic: The Obesity Epidemic and the News
Pages 51-76
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Fat Finds Lifestyle: Introducing Reality Television
Pages 77-97
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The Before: Fat Gets Ready for a Makeover
Pages 101-117
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
- Authors
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- Jayne Raisborough
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-28887-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-28887-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-28886-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 187
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