In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized, and treated with derision and even repulsion and disgust. Medical and public health experts continue to insist that an ‘obesity epidemic’ exists and that fatness is a pathological condition which should be prevented and controlled.
Fat is a book about why the fat body has become so reviled and reviewed as diseased, the target of such intense discussion and debate about ways to reduce its size down to socially and medically acceptable dimensions. It is about the lived experience of fat embodiment: how does it feel to be fat in a fat phobic-society? Fat activism and obesity politics, and related controversies, are also discussed. Internationally-renowned sociologist Deborah Lupton explores fat as a sociocultural artefact: a bodily substance or body shape that is given meaning by complex and shifting systems of ideas, practices, emotions, material objects and interpersonal relationships. This analysis identifies broader preoccupations and trends in the ways that human bodies and selfhood are experienced and practised.
The second and much expanded edition of __Fat__ is twice as long as the original edition. Lupton incorporates the very latest current critical scholarship and research offered in the humanities and social sciences on fat embodiment and fat politics. New updated material is presented in every chapter, including substantial additional sections on new digital media. __Fat__ is a lively, at times provocative introduction for the general reader, as well as for students and academics interested in the politics of embodiment and health.

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Lupton, Deborah

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 2018

Second edition, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

lg2976643

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
The emergence of the ‘obesity epidemic’
Critical weight studies/fat studies
Constructing ‘obesity’
Challenging ‘obesity’
Chapter outline
2. Thinking about fat: A review of different perspectives
The anti-obesity perspective
Critical perspectives
3. Governing fat bodies
Medical power and the ‘obesity epidemic’
The social construction of ‘overweight’ and ‘obesity’
The BMI and defining ‘obesity’
Biopolitics and personal responsibility for body weight
The pedagogy of disgust
Governing children’s bodies
The family as site of intervention
Minority groups and weight control
Digitized self-monitoring
4. The transgressive fat body
Fatness and morality
Fat bodies in the popular media
Fatness, disgust, abjection
Femininities, fluidities, fatness
Spoilt masculinities and fat embodiment
5. Being/feeling fat
Fat discrimination
Fatness and the commodified body
Space, place and fat bodies
Fatness: a disability?
6. Reframing fat: Fat activism and size acceptance politics
Fat, out and proud
Naturally fat?
Ethics and feminist fat politics
Critiques of fat activism and body positivism
Ways forward
Concluding comments
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

2021-04-02