| Description |
1 online resource (x, 262 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
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School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people. |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making Sense of the New Global Body Norms / Alexandra Brewis -- 1: From Thin to Fat and Back Again: A Dual Process Model of the Big Body Mass Reversal / Daniel J. Hruschka -- 2: Managing Body Capital in the Fields of Labor, Sex, and Health / Alexander Edmonds and Ashley Mears -- 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 -- 4: Excess Gains and Losses: Maternal Obesity, Infant Mortality, and the Biopolitics of Blame / Monica J. Casper -- 5: Symbolic Body Capital of an "Other" Kind: African American Females as a Bracketed Subunit in Female Body Valuation / Stephanie M. McClure -- 6: Fat Is a Linguistic Issue: Discursive Negotiation of Power, Identity, and the Gendered Body among Youth / Nicole L. Taylor -- 7: Body Size, Social Standing, and Weight Management: The View from Fiji / Anne E. Becker -- 8: 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 -- Back Cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Obesity -- Social aspects.
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Obesity -- Social aspects. |
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Medical anthropology.
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Medical anthropology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Anderson-Fye, Eileen P., editor.
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Brewis, Alexandra, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fat planet. Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017 9780826358004 (DLC) 2016021326 |
| ISBN |
9780826358011 (electronic book) |
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0826358012 (electronic book) |
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9780826358004 (paperback) |
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0826358004 (paperback) |
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