Men and the war on obesity : a sociological study / Lee F. Monaghan.
"According to official statistics, nearly two thirds of men in Britain are overweight or obese. Men and the War on Obesity offers a timely, critical and original take on the obesity debate, bringing male bodies into the frame and questioning the claim from public health that millions of people...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Summary: | "According to official statistics, nearly two thirds of men in Britain are overweight or obese. Men and the War on Obesity offers a timely, critical and original take on the obesity debate, bringing male bodies into the frame and questioning the claim from public health that millions of people are unhealthy because they are ?overweight? or ?obese?. It focuses upon everyday men, who, according to medicalized ideas of appropriate weight for height and like most men in developed nations, are too heavy. This challenging work redresses the gender bias in the existing literature and questions the degradation of big bodies as part of the widely declared war on fat."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 214 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415407117 9780415407113 0415407125 9780415407120 |