Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems / Edition 1

by Jeffery Sobal

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202305806
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	10/31/1999
Series:	Social Problems & Social Issues
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	16 Years

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: body weight as a social problem, Jeffery Sobal, Donna Naurer. Part 2 Historical foundations: children and dieting - priorities in the US and France, Peter N. Stearns; fat boys and goody girls - Hilde Bruch's work on eating disorders and the post-war American zeitgeist, Paula Saukko. Part 3 Medical models: constitutional types, institutional forms - contending diagnostic and therapeutic models for obesity in early 20th century biomedical research, Mark T. Hamin; defining perfect and not-so-perfect bodies - the rise and fall of the Dreyer Method for the assessment of physique and fitness, 1918-1926, David Smith, Sally Horrocks. Part 4 Gendered dimensions: ideal weight/ ideal women - society constructs the female, Nita McKinley; the female gaze - gendered bodies and the dieting panopticon, John Germov, Lauren Williams; fleshing out the discomforts of femininity - female anorexia and male compulsive bodybuilding as attempts to achieve invulnerability, Martha McCaughley. Part 5 Institutional components: commodity knowledge in consumer culture - the role of nutritional health promotion in the making of the diet industry, Bryn Austin; the meaning of weight among dietitians, nutrition educators, and related health professionals, Ellen Parham. Part 6 Collective processes: too skinny or vibrant and healthy? weight management in the vegetarian movement, Donna Maurer; the size acceptance movement and the social construction of body weight, Jeffery Sobal. Bibliographical sketches of the contributors.

Editorial Reviews

Scholars from the fields of health and nutrition, sociology, economic and social history, women's studies, and psychology offer 12 contributions addressing the historical foundations of weight as a social issue, accompanied by current empirical research drawn from gender studies, social history, and psychology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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