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What's Wrong with Fat?
Abigail Saguy
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Description for What's Wrong with Fat?
What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; JHB; KCQ; MMZF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic--a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions--that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How has fatness come to be understood as a public health crisis at all? Why, she asks, has the view of "fat" as a problem--a symptom ... Read more
The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic--a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions--that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How has fatness come to be understood as a public health crisis at all? Why, she asks, has the view of "fat" as a problem--a symptom ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199857081
SKU
V9780199857081
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About Abigail Saguy
Abigail Saguy is Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA and author of What is Sexual Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne.
Reviews for What's Wrong with Fat?
I would consider this body of work to be of utmost importance to individuals on both sides of this debate: scientists, professionals in medicine and public heath, and Fat Acceptance and Health at Every Size advocates aiding all of them in appreciating the complexity of this important topic.
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