Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies 1st Edition by Michael Gard 9781000511390 1000511391

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• ISBN 10: 1000511391
• ISBN 13:9781000511390
• Author: Michael Gard

Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies

Table contents:

Part A Introduction
1 The worlds of critical obesity studies
Part B History
2 A critical obesidarium (in English)
3 How body size became a disease: a history of the body mass index and its rise to clinical importance
4 Obesity in transition: a challenge in modern history
5 Obesity in Brazil: between liberties and pathologies
6 Middle-aged businessman and social progress: the links between risk factor research and the obesity epidemic
7 Crisis revisited: historical notes on a modern ‘obesity epidemic’
Part C Theory
8 Devil Pray: fat studies in an obesity research world
9 Not the Medicine Needed? Governing fat women’s bodies via exercise prescriptions
10 New materialist enactments
11 Doing fat with post-developmental pedagogies
12 A personal reflection on editing: ‘unmasking’ the critical obesity researcher against itself
Part D Food
13 Sweetening the “war on obesity”
14 Obesity and its cures as socio-ecological fixes for agro-food capitalism
15 Encountering ‘healthy’ food in Mexican schools
16 Navigating the ‘norm’ in food experiences and healthy lifestyles of Chinese international students in Australia
17 School food in Australia – a dog’s breakfast?
18 Obesity and the proper meal at workplace: French and English at the table and (or beyond) the culturalist explanation
19 Junk food marketing, childhood obesity, and the production of (un)certainty
Part E Bodies
20 (Re)defining language: ‘fat’, ‘overweight’, and ‘obese’ identities
21 Skinny selves in a fat-obsessed world
22 The ubiquity of the experience of being “too fat”: perspectives from young people in Germany
23 A mother of a problem: addressing the gendering of obesity panic
24 Fighting fat in families?
25 Goldilocks Days: optimal activity mixes in Australian children
26 Fat activism and physical activity
27 Wayfinding obesity within the VA’ of critical beauty
Part F Media
28 News reporting on the “obesity epidemic” and how it worsens weight-based stigma
29 The spectacle of obesity in reality makeover shows in Chile1
30 The rise of the carnivore diet and the fetishizing of indigenous foodways
31 A study of an anti-obesity, anti-obesity campaign
Part G Policies
32 Evidence as a fig leaf: obesity policies and institutional filters in Denmark
33 The metabolic rift between culture and liberalism in obesity interventions and policy
34 A matter of weight? Anti-obesity strategies in Spain
35 New language, old assumptions: the shifting language in British Columbia’s physical and health education curricula
36 The ethics of obesity policy
Part H Future directions
37 Frameworks and ideologies for fat non-discrimination rights
38 Changing attitudes: a review and critique of weight stigma intervention research
39 A critique of obesity as a category of malnutrition in all its forms

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