The 'fat' female body / Samantha Murray

• 作者： Murray, Samantha 1978-
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• 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2008
• 主題： Obesity. , Body Image. , Social Desirability , Social Perception. , Women , Obesity in women--Social aspects , Obesity in women--Political aspects , Body image in women.
• ISBN： 9780230584419 、 0230584411
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• 書目註：Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this bookexplores the problems andambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society. Engagingwith dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The 'Fat' Female Body explores the moral panicover the 'obesity epidemic', and the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologising 'fat' bodies. It contributes to the emerging fieldoffat studies by offering not only alternative understandings of subjectivity, the (re)production of public knowledge(s) of 'fatness', and politics of embodiment, but also the possiblility of (re)reading 'fat' bodies to foster more productive social relations Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index
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