Fat Planet
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Fat Planet

Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Fat Planet

Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital

About this book

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 capital—the 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 fat—often considered personal yet powerfully influenced by and influential upon the broader world in which we live.

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Yes, you can access Fat Planet by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye, Alexandra Brewis, Eileen P. Anderson-Fye,Alexandra Brewis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Making Sense of the New Global Body Norms / Alexandra Brewis
  8. 1: From Thin to Fat and Back Again: A Dual Process Model of the Big Body Mass Reversal / Daniel J. Hruschka
  9. 2: Managing Body Capital in the Fields of Labor, Sex, and Health / Alexander Edmonds and Ashley Mears
  10. 3: 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
  11. 4: Excess Gains and Losses: Maternal Obesity, Infant Mortality, and the Biopolitics of Blame / Monica J. Casper
  12. 5: Symbolic Body Capital of an “Other” Kind: African American Females as a Bracketed Subunit in Female Body Valuation / Stephanie M. McClure
  13. 6: Fat Is a Linguistic Issue: Discursive Negotiation of Power, Identity, and the Gendered Body among Youth / Nicole L. Taylor
  14. 7: Body Size, Social Standing, and Weight Management: The View from Fiji / Anne E. Becker
  15. 8: Glocalizing Beauty: Weight and Body Image in the New Middle East / Sarah Trainer
  16. Conclusion: Fat Matters: Capital, Markets, and Morality / Rebecca J. Lester and Eileen P. Anderson-Fye
  17. References
  18. Contributors
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover