ISBN:
978-0-8263-5800-4
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0-8263-5800-4
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978-0-8263-5801-1 /E-Book
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 272 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [121]
Keywords:
Anthropologie, medizinische Körper
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Körperbewußtsein
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Schönheit, persönliche
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Eßgewohnheit
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Fettsucht
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Sozialer Aspekt
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Afrika
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Belize
;
Fidschi-Insel
;
Jamaika
;
Nepal
;
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract:
The average size of human bodies all over the world has been steadily rising over recent decades. The total count of people clinically labeled "obese" is now at least three times what it was in 1980. Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people. Making use of an array of social science perspectives applied in multiple settings, the authors examine the interplay of weight, wealth, history, culture, and meaning to fat and its social rejection. They explore the notion of symbolic body capitalthe power of non-fat bodies to do what people need or want. In so doing, they illustrate the complex and quickly shifting dynamics in thinking about fatoften considered personal yet powerfully influenced by and influential upon the broader world in which we live. (Verlagsangabe)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Making Sense of the New Global Body Norms, Alexandra Brewis -- Chapter One - From Thin to Fat and Back Again: A Dual Process Model of the Big Body Mass Reversal, Daniel J. Hruschka -- Chapter Two - Managing Body Capital in the Fields of Labor, Sex, and Health, Alexander Edmonds and Ashley Mears -- Chapter Three - Fat and Too Fat: Risk and Protection for Obesity Stigma in Three Countries, Eileen P. Anderson-Fye, Stephanie M. McClure, Maureen Floriano, Arundhati Bharati, Yunzhu Chen, and Caryl James -- Chapter Four - Excess Gains and Losses: Maternal Obesity, Infant Mortality, and the Biopolitics of Blame, Monica J. Casper -- Chapter Five - Symbolic Body Capital of an "Other" Kind: African American Females as a Bracketed Subunit in Female Body Valuation, Stephanie M. McClure -- Chapter Six - Fat Is a Linguistic Issue: Discursive Negotiation of Power, Identity, and the Gendered Body among Youth, Nicole L. Taylor -- Chapter Seven - Body Size, Social Standing, and Weight Management: The View from Fiji, Anne E. Becker -- Chapter Eight - Glocalizing Beauty: Weight and Body Image in the New Middle East, Sarah Trainer -- Conclusion - Fat Matters: Capital, Markets, and Morality, Rebecca J. Lester and Eileen P. Anderson-Fye -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-248"School of Advanced Research advanced seminar Obesity, Upward Mobility, and Symbolic Body Capital in a Rapidly Changing World, [...] March 2-6, 2014" (Seite 249)Enthält eine Einführung und 9 Beiträge
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