Add to ORKGIs our concern over the ‘obesity epidemic’ simply a moral cudgel with which to denigrate those whose bodies do not conform to the social ideal? Through juxtaposing a public health campaign with a Fat Positive blog, this paper explores visual representations of the fat body in both and how these sites for looking are in dialogue with one another. In doing so, this paper seeks to deconstruct the boundary between public health and on the ground activism and challenge public narratives around health, bodies and identity
The cultural meanings surrounding fatness---including the social construction of fatness as a proble...
The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers’ bodies. Propos...
In the current popular of America, fat is seen as a very bad thing. Having excess weight is not only...
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambig...
This paper critically explores the similarities between social marketing campaigns and 'shock tactic...
Social science researchers have tackled the social “problem” of fatness across several disciplines, ...
This project is presented as a critical intervention into the larger debates surrounding the U.S. fa...
"Competing explanations of the obesity epidemic identify either individual or systemic causes, blami...
Since the turn of the twentieth century, middle-class Americans have considered the thin body--osten...
Since the turn of the twentieth century, middle-class Americans have considered the thin body--osten...
Fatness is the repository of a series of discourses whose intent is to define and control “unruly” b...
In this paper we track the ‘body positivity’ movement from its origins, promoting radical acceptance...
The human experience is fraught with stigmatizing experiences—whether framed upon race, gender, body...
Major Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management...
The human experience is fraught with stigmatizing experiences—whether framed upon race, gender, body...
The cultural meanings surrounding fatness---including the social construction of fatness as a proble...
The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers’ bodies. Propos...
In the current popular of America, fat is seen as a very bad thing. Having excess weight is not only...
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambig...
This paper critically explores the similarities between social marketing campaigns and 'shock tactic...
Social science researchers have tackled the social “problem” of fatness across several disciplines, ...
This project is presented as a critical intervention into the larger debates surrounding the U.S. fa...
"Competing explanations of the obesity epidemic identify either individual or systemic causes, blami...
Since the turn of the twentieth century, middle-class Americans have considered the thin body--osten...
Since the turn of the twentieth century, middle-class Americans have considered the thin body--osten...
Fatness is the repository of a series of discourses whose intent is to define and control “unruly” b...
In this paper we track the ‘body positivity’ movement from its origins, promoting radical acceptance...
The human experience is fraught with stigmatizing experiences—whether framed upon race, gender, body...
Major Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management...
The human experience is fraught with stigmatizing experiences—whether framed upon race, gender, body...
The cultural meanings surrounding fatness---including the social construction of fatness as a proble...
The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers’ bodies. Propos...
In the current popular of America, fat is seen as a very bad thing. Having excess weight is not only...