Fat In Four Cultures

Author : Cindi Sturtzsreetharan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781487508005
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat in Four Cultures written by Cindi Sturtzsreetharan and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique comparative ethnography uses a systematic and nuanced approach to delve into the myriad meanings of "being fat" within and across different global sites.

Author : Cindi SturtzSreetharan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487525621
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat in Four Cultures written by Cindi SturtzSreetharan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique comparative ethnography uses a systematic and nuanced approach to delve into the myriad meanings of being fat within and across different global sites.

Author : Cindi SturtzSreetharan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487537360
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat in Four Cultures written by Cindi SturtzSreetharan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traits that signal belonging dictate our daily routines, including how we eat, move, and connect to others. In recent years, "fat" has emerged as a shared anchor in defining who belongs and is valued versus who does not and is not. The stigma surrounding weight transcends many social, cultural, political, and economic divides. The concern over body image shapes not only how we see ourselves, but also how we talk, interact, and fit into our social networks, communities, and broader society. Fat in Four Cultures is a co-authored comparative ethnography that reveals the shared struggles and local distinctions of how people across the globe are coping with a bombardment of anti-fat messages. Highlighting important differences in how people experience "being fat," the cases in this book are based on fieldwork by five anthropologists working together simultaneously in four different sites across the globe: Japan, the United States, Paraguay, and Samoa. Through these cases, Fat in Four Cultures considers what insights can be gained through systematic, cross-cultural comparison. Written in an eye-opening and narrative-driven style, with clearly defined and consistently used key terms, this book effectively explores a series of fundamental questions about the present and future of fat and obesity.

Author : Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520225855
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies Out of Bounds written by Jana Evans Braziel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an exceptional collection—the subject is of obvious importance, yet terribly undertheorized and unexamined. I know of no other work that offers what this collection provides."—Marcia Millman, author of Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America ". . . A valuable contribution to scholarly debates on the place of excessive bodies in contemporary culture. This book promises to enrich all areas of inquiry related to the politics of bodies."—Carole Spitzack, author of Confessing Excess: Women and the Politics of Body Reduction "This anthology includes a wide range of perceptive and original essays, which explore and analyze the underlying ideologies that have made fat "incorrect." Echoing the spirit of the nineteenth-century adage about children who should be neither seen nor heard, some of the authors powerfully remind us that we keep "bodies out of bound" silenced and unseen-unless, of course, we need to peek at the comic or grotesque."—Raquel Salgado Scherr, co-author of Face Value: The Politics of Beauty "Through textual analyses, video/film analyses, television theory, and literary theory, this collection demonstrates the various ways in which dominant representations of fat and corpulence have been both demonized and rendered invisible. . . . This volume will be a crucial corollary to work on the tyranny of slenderness; a collection of different perspectives on the fat body is sorely missing in women's studies, communication, and media studies."—Sarah Banet-Weiser, author of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity

Author : Amy Erdman Farrell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814727689
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat Shame written by Amy Erdman Farrell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.

Author : Natalie Boero
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813553725
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer Fat written by Natalie Boero and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, “snack taxes,” and laws to control how fast food companies market to children. As an epidemic, obesity threatens to weaken the health, economy, and might of the most powerful nation in the world. In Killer Fat, Natalie Boero examines how and why obesity emerged as a major public health concern and national obsession in recent years. Using primary sources and in-depth interviews, Boero enters the world of bariatric surgeries, Weight Watchers, and Overeaters Anonymous to show how common expectations of what bodies are supposed to look like help to determine what sorts of interventions and policies are considered urgent in containing this new kind of disease. Boero argues that obesity, like the traditional epidemics of biological contagion and mass death, now incites panic, a doomsday scenario that must be confronted in a struggle for social stability. The “war” on obesity, she concludes, is a form of social control. Killer Fat ultimately offers an alternate framing of the nation’s obesity problem based on the insights of the “Health at Every Size” movement.

Author : Harriet Brown
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0738217697
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body of Truth written by Harriet Brown and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A science journalist's provocative exploration of how biology, psychology, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies, while also tackling the myths and realities of the "obesity epidemic."

Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800376626
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research Methods written by Pranee Liamputtong and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides an in-depth discussion on doing cross-cultural research more ethically, sensibly and responsibly with diverse groups of people around the globe. It focuses on cross-cultural research in the social sciences where researchers who are often from Western, educated and rich backgrounds are conducting research with individuals from different socio-cultural settings that are often non-Western, illiterate and poor.

Author : Geri-Ann Galanti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caring for Patients from Different Cultures written by Geri-Ann Galanti and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geri-Ann Galanti argues that if the goal of the American medical system is to provide optimal care for all patients, health-care providers must understand cultural differences that create conflicts and misunderstandings and that can result in inferior medical care. This new edition includes five new chapters and 172 case studies of actual conflicts that occurred in American hospitals.

Author : Gary Taubes
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307474259
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Get Fat written by Gary Taubes and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.” —The New York Times What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management. Complete with an easy-to-follow diet. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions.