TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kwan,Samantha
AU  - Graves,Jennifer
TI  - Framing fat: competing constructions in contemporary culture 
SN  - 9780813560939
AV  - RC628 .F736 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Body image
KW  - psychology
KW  - Body Image
KW  - Food Habits
KW  - Public Opinion
KW  - Feeding Behavior
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; A contested field --; Fat as frightful --; Fat as fatal --; Fat and food politics --; Fat and fair treatment --; Framing fat bodies; 2; b
N2  - "According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epidemic, however, suggests that there are multiple perspectives on the fat body, not all of which view obesity as a health hazard. Alongside public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advertisers of the fashion-beauty complex, food industry advocates at the Center for Consumer Freedom, and activists at the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. Framing Fat takes a bird's-eye view of how these multiple actors construct the fat body by identifying the messages these groups put forth, particularly where issues of beauty, health, choice and responsibility, and social justice are concerned. Samantha Kwan and Jennifer Graves examine how laypersons respond to these conflicting messages and illustrate the gendered, raced, and classed implications within them. In doing so, they shed light on how dominant ideas about body fat have led to the moral indictment of body nonconformists, essentially 'framing' them for their fat bodies."--Publisher's website
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