Weighty issues : fatness and thinness as social problems / Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer, editors
- Bib ID:
- 1407116
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Hawthorne, N.Y. : Aldine de Gruyter, c1999
- xii, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0202305791 (alkaline paper)
- 0202305805 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- Social problems and social issues.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Body Weight as a Social Problem / Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer
- Pt. II. Historical Foundations. 2. Children and Weight Control: Priorities in the United States and France / Peter N. Stearns. 3. Fat Boys and Goody Girls: Hilde Bruch's Work on Eating Disorders and the American Anxiety about Democracy, 1930-1960 / Paula Saukko
- Pt. III. Medical Models. 4. Constitutional Types, Institutional Forms: Reconfiguring Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches to Obesity in Early Twentieth-Century Biomedical Investigation / Mark T. Hamin. 5. Defining Perfect and Not-So-Perfect Bodies: The Rise and Fall of the "Dreyer Method" for the Assessment of Physique and Fitness, 1918-26 / David Smith and Sally Horrocks
- Pt. IV. Gendered Dimensions. 6. Ideal Weight/Ideal Women: Society Constructs the Female / Nita Mary McKinley. 7. Dieting Women: Self-Surveillance and the Body Panopticon / John Germov and Lauren Williams.
- 8. Fleshing Out the Discomforts of Femininity: The Parallel Cases of Female Anorexia and Male Compulsive Bodybuilding / Martha McCaughey
- Pt. V. Institutional Components. 9. Commodity Knowledge in Consumer Culture: The Role of Nutritional Health Promotion in the Making of the Diet Industry / S. Bryn Austin. 10. Meanings of Weight among Dietitians and Nutritionists / Ellen S. Parham
- Pt. VI. Collective Processes. 11. Too Skinny or Vibrant and Healthy?: Weight Management in the Vegetarian Movement / Donna Maurer. 12. The Size Acceptance Movement and the Social Construction of Body Weight / Jeffery Sobal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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