This paper explores the issue of what it means to be 'fat' for women in western (British/North American) society. Contemporary gendered bio-medical discourse dominates attitudes towards body shapes and sizes (Bordo, 1995). In this, fatness is constructed as 'clinical obesity' and associated with risk-taking behaviour. Under the rhetoric of 'health', a large body size becomes symbolic of self-indulgence and moral failure (Duncan and Weitz, 1998). This, in turn, leads women to question their sense of self and their rights to adequate health care. This paper argues the use of medical knowledge and definitions of fatness have pathologised and stigmatised women's bodies, affecting women's access to and experience of health care (Carryer, 20...
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this p...
Fat stigma and discrimination are prevalent in the U.S. and have harmful effects (Puhl, Adreyeva, an...
The human experience is fraught with stigmatizing experiences—whether framed upon race, gender, body...
In this article we explore the issue of what it means to be "fat" for women in Western (British/Nort...
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambig...
Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand, a clearly defined medical condition, it ...
Dominant discourses represent body weight as a consequence of lifestyle, equating 'fatness' with 'di...
Social science researchers have tackled the social “problem” of fatness across several disciplines, ...
Body size is very much linked to the gendered issue of beauty, as well as, nowadays, to irresponsibi...
The cultural meanings surrounding fatness---including the social construction of fatness as a proble...
This paper uses feminist disability studies to explore the discursive production of fat embodiment w...
Contemporary Western societies are obsessed with the “obesity epidemic,” dieting, and fitness. Fat p...
Dominant discourses represent body weight as a consequence of lifestyle, equating ‘fatness’ with ‘di...
Despite an increasingly pathologised discourse on overweight andobesity, the clinical experiences of...
This paper explores how the discipline required for good health influences female embodiment. It exa...
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this p...
Fat stigma and discrimination are prevalent in the U.S. and have harmful effects (Puhl, Adreyeva, an...
The human experience is fraught with stigmatizing experiences—whether framed upon race, gender, body...
In this article we explore the issue of what it means to be "fat" for women in Western (British/Nort...
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambig...
Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand, a clearly defined medical condition, it ...
Dominant discourses represent body weight as a consequence of lifestyle, equating 'fatness' with 'di...
Social science researchers have tackled the social “problem” of fatness across several disciplines, ...
Body size is very much linked to the gendered issue of beauty, as well as, nowadays, to irresponsibi...
The cultural meanings surrounding fatness---including the social construction of fatness as a proble...
This paper uses feminist disability studies to explore the discursive production of fat embodiment w...
Contemporary Western societies are obsessed with the “obesity epidemic,” dieting, and fitness. Fat p...
Dominant discourses represent body weight as a consequence of lifestyle, equating ‘fatness’ with ‘di...
Despite an increasingly pathologised discourse on overweight andobesity, the clinical experiences of...
This paper explores how the discipline required for good health influences female embodiment. It exa...
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this p...
Fat stigma and discrimination are prevalent in the U.S. and have harmful effects (Puhl, Adreyeva, an...
The human experience is fraught with stigmatizing experiences—whether framed upon race, gender, body...