ISBN:
9781137288868
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (191 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Raisborough, Jayne Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
DDC:
306.4613
Keywords:
Human body-Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: Fat, the Media, and a Fat Sensibility -- Why the Media Matters: Health Literacies and Stigma -- Reality Representations -- Apprehending Obesity: Focusing on Fat -- Working with Sensibility: Relating Representations to Subjecthood -- A Fat Sensibility -- How the Book Is Organized -- Dear Reader: A Personal Note on Language -- Part I: Dramatis Personae: Introducing Fat, Health and Mass Media -- 2: The Matter of Fat -- Introduction -- Fat Past -- Fat as Thing -- Fat as Repository -- The Middle Classes
Abstract:
Preparing Fat to Meet Health: Statistics and Scales -- Scales -- From Guilty Glands to Deviant Addicts -- Fat Becomes Common Sense -- Lifestyled Health -- When Fat Meets Lifestyled Health -- Summary -- 3: Fat Gets Melodramatic: The Obesity Epidemic and the News -- Introduction -- What is an Epidemic? -- Turning Fat into Big Numbers -- The 'Postmodern' Epidemic and Epidemiological Imagination -- A Recipe for Melodrama: Epidemics and the News Media -- Obese News: Bellies, Butts, and Benevolence -- A Shift to Benevolent Representations? -- Summary
Abstract:
4: Fat Finds Lifestyle: Introducing Reality Television -- Introduction -- The Trashy Matter of Television -- Teaching Lo-fat Citizenship: The Pedagogical Function of Reality Television -- Fat Goes to Market -- Individualizing Obesity: Thinking About Context and Class -- Reactions to Biopedagogies -- Summary -- Part II: Fat Hits the Small Screen -- 5: The Before: Fat Gets Ready for a Makeover -- Introduction -- The Makeover -- The Staging of the Fat Body -- The 'Before' Body -- The Before 'Mind' -- The Before 'Destiny' -- Classing the Fat Body -- Summary
Abstract:
6: Sweat and Tears: Working at Redemption -- Introduction -- Cycles of Redemption -- Confessions of the Polluted -- Mortification -- Redemption! Well, for now… -- Summary -- 7: Fat and on Benefits: The Obese Turn Abese -- Introduction -- Poverty Porn and 'the Obese' in Austerity -- Austerity -- Poverty Porn and Policy -- Social Abjection -- The Abese: Fat Chance of Work -- Gender -- On the Sick -- Enter Steve -- Summary -- 8: Conclusion: Fat Sensibility or Moral Panic? -- Introduction -- Moral Panic -- 'Dear Fat People' -- References -- Index
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