Watching our weights: the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic"
Auteur :
Zimdars, Melissa
Éditeur :
Rutgers University Press
ISBN :
9780813593555
Date de publication :
7 févr. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,0 cm
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness, and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favour of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body.