Download e-book for iPad: Fat Bodies, Health and the Media by Jayne Raisborough

By Jayne Raisborough

Our televisions bulge with weight loss indicates, because the information warn of the weight problems epidemic. fats is this type of villain that greater everyone is stigmatized and all of us are seduced by way of life-changing claims of a multi-billion pound nutrition undefined. but, after we query if our rest room scales can quite let us know approximately our healthiness, we commence to invite simply why and the way fats holds such fascination.

In this book, Jayne Raisborough explores interpretations of fats our bodies from Palaeolithic Europe to Poverty Porn television to argue that fat’s materiality makes it ripe for stigmatising institutions. notwithstanding, particularly in a social context that offers wellbeing and fitness as an issue of selection, fats additionally emerges as a terrific redemptive substance to be pummelled and starved into submission. This e-book offers a ‘fat sensibility’ to illustrate how fats helps us all turn into responsibilised healthy-citizens. It asks simply what self are we being requested to nutrition ourselves into?

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