| Description |
xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Social problems and social issues
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Social problems and social issues.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Body weight as a social problem / Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Children and weight control: priorities in the United States and France / Peter N. Stearns -- Fat boys and goody girls: Hilde Bruch's work on eating disorders and the American anxiety about democracy, 1930-1960 / Paula Saukko -- Constitutional types, institutional forms: reconfiguring diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to obesity in early twentieth-century biomedical investigation / Mark T. Hamin -- Defining perfect and not-so-perfect bodies: the rise and fall of the "Dreyer method" for the assessment of physique and fitness, 1918-26 / David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Ideal weight/ideal women: society constructs the female / Nita Mary McKinley -- Dieting women: self-surveillance and the body panopticon / John Germov and Lauren Williams -- Fleshing out the discomforts of femininity: the parallel cases of female anorexia and male compulsive bodybuilding / Martha McCaughey -- Commodity knowledge in consumer culture: the role of nutritional health promotion in the making of the diet industry / S. Bryn Austin -- Meanings of weight among dietitians and nutritionists / Ellen S. Parham -- Too skinny or vibrant and healthy?: weight management in the vegetarian movement / Donna Maurer -- Size acceptance movement and the social construction of body weight / Jeffery Sobal. |
| Subject |
Obesity -- Social aspects.
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Obesity -- Social aspects. |
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Food -- Social aspects.
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Food -- Social aspects. |
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Nutrition -- Social aspects.
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Nutrition -- Social aspects. |
| Added Author |
Sobal, Jeffery, 1950-
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Maurer, Donna, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0202305805 paperback alkaline paper |
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0202305791 alkaline paper |
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