Fat shame : stigma and the fat body in American culture / Amy Erdman Farrell.
Locating the origins of the cultural denigration of fatness in the mid 19th century, Amy Erdman Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body preceded any health concerns about a large body size. Farrell draws on a wide array of sources, including political cartoons, popular literature,...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | Locating the origins of the cultural denigration of fatness in the mid 19th century, Amy Erdman Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body preceded any health concerns about a large body size. Farrell draws on a wide array of sources, including political cartoons, popular literature, postcards, advertisements, and physician's manuals to explore the link between our historic denigration of fatness and our contemporary concern over obesity. She explores the ways that those who seek to shed stigmatized identities, whether of gender, race, ethnicity or class, often take part in weight reduction schemes and fat mockery in order to validate themselves as "civilized."--[book cover]. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 209 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0814728758 9780814728758 |