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16%OFFNicole Taylor - Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity - 9781138924215 - V9781138924215
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Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity

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Description for Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity Paperback. .
Winner of the Reader Views Literary Award, Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, Schooled on Fat explores how body image, social status, fat stigma and teasing, food consumption behaviors, and exercise practices intersect in the daily lives of adolescent girls and boys. Based on nine months of fieldwork at a high school located near Tucson, Arizona, the book draws on social, linguistic, and theoretical contexts to illustrate how teens navigate the fraught realities of body image within a high school culture that reinforced widespread beliefs about body size as a matter of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138924215
SKU
V9781138924215
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

Reviews for Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity
Wow. Reading this book was such an intense experience. [...] The straightforward reporting, and dialogue with the study participants, really brought up some difficult emotions while I was reading. On one hand, I felt that I was comprehending the information through the eyes of a parent [...] On the other hand, the candid discussions brought back memories of a time ... Read more

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