Routledge handbook of critical obesity studies. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of critical obesity studies; Critical obesity studies
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Gard, Darren Powell, José Tenorio.
• Editors: Gard, Michael, 1965-; (Educator), Powell, Darren; Tenorio, José
• Contents: Part A: Introduction Chapter 1- The Worlds of Critical Obesity Studies Darren Powell, José Tenorio and Michael Gard Part B: History Chapter 2- A Critical Obesidarium (in English) Hillel Schwartz Chapter 3- How Body Size Became a Disease: A History of Body Mass Index and its Rise to Clinical Importance Katherine M Flegal Chapter 4- Obesity in Transition: A Challenge in Modern History Peter N. Stearns Chapter 5- Obesity in Brazil: Between Liberties and Pathologies Denise Bernuzzi de Sant’Anna Chapter 6- Middle-Aged Businessman and Social Progress: The Links between Risk Factor Research and the Obesity Epidemic Isabel Fletcher Chapter 7- Crisis revisited: Historical Notes on Modern ‘Obesity Epidemic’ Michael Gard Part C: Theory Chapter 8- Devil Pray: Fat Studies in an Obesity Research World Cat Pausé Chapter 9- Not the Medicine Needed? Governing Women’s Bodies via Exercise Prescription Richard Pringle Chapter 10- New Materialist Enactment Simone Fullagar, Emma Rich, and Niamh NI Shuilleabhain Chapter 11- Doing Fat with Post-Developmental Pedagogies Nicole Land Chapter 12- A Personal Reflection on Editing: ‘Unmasking’ The Critical Obesity Researcher against Itself Michael Gard; Part D: Food Chapter 13- Sweetening the ‘War on Obesity’ Karen Throsby Chapter 14- Obesity and its Cures as Socio-Ecological Fixes for Agro-Food Capitalism Julie Guthman Chapter 15- Encountering ‘Healthy’ Food in Mexican Schools Jose Tenorio Chapter 16- Navigating the ‘Norma’ In Food Experiences and Healthy Lifestyles of Chines International Students in Australia Bonnie Pang Chapter 17- School Food in Australia- A Dog’s Breakfast?; Deana Leahy, Jan Wright, Jo Lindsay, Claire Tanner, JaneMaree Maher and Sian Supski Chapter 18- Obesity and the Proper Meal at Workplace. French and English at the Table and (or Beyond) The Culturalist Explanation Jean-Pierre Poulain and Cyrille Laporte Chapter 19- Junk Food Marketing, Childhood Obesity and the Production of (Un)certainty) Darren Powell Part E: Bodies Chapter 20- (Re)defining Language: ‘Fat’, ‘Overweight’, and ‘Obese’ Identities Aimee B. Simpson Chapter 21- Skinny Selves in a Fat Obsessed World Susan Greenhalgh; Chapter 22- The Ubiquity of the Experience of Being ‘Too Fat’: Perspectives from Young People in Germany Eva Barlosius Chapter 23- A Mother of a Problem: Addressing the Gendering of Obesity Panic George Parker Chapter 24- Fighting Fat in Families Lisette Burrows Chapter 25- Goldilocks Days: Optimal Activity Mixes in Australian Children Tim Olds, Dorothea Dumuid and Melissa Wake Chapter 26- Fat Activism and Physical Activity Jenny Ellison Chapter 27- Wayfinding Obesity within the ‘VA’ of Critical Beauty Fetaui Iosefo Part F: Media Chapter 28- News Reporting on the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ and How it Worsens Weight-Based Stigma Abigail C. Saguy Chapter 29- The Spectacle of Obesity in Reality Makeover Shows in Chile Valeria Radrigán and Tania Orellana Chapter 30- The Rise of the Carnivore Diet: And the Fetishizing of Ingidenous Foodways Travis Hay and Jennifer Poudrier Chapter 31- A Study of An Anti -Obesity, Anti-Obesity Campaign Jessica Lee and Benjamin Williams Part G: Policies Chapter 32- Evidence as a Fig Leaf: Obesity Policies and Institutional Filters in Denmark Signild Vallgårda Chapter 33- The Metabolic Rift Between Culture and Liberalism in Obesity Interventions and Policy Megan Warin Chapter 34- A Matter of Weight? Anti-Obesity Strategies in Spain Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz Chapter 35- New Language, Old Assumptions: The Shape Shifting Language in British Columbia’s Physical and Health Education Curricula LeAnne Petherick and Moss E. Norman Chapter 36- The Ethics of Obesity Policy T. M. Wilson Part H: Future Directions Chapter 37- Frameworks and Ideologies for Fat Non-Discrimination Rights Anna Kirkland Chapter 38- Changing Attitudes: A Review and Critique of Weight Stigma Intervention Research Patricia Cain, Ngaire Donaghue and Graeme Ditchburn Chapter 39- A Critique of Obesity as a Category of Malnutrition in All its Forms Gyorgy Scrinis Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.196398; Obesity; Overweight persons
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000511390; 9781000511352; 9780429344824
• Related ISBNs: 9780367362447
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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