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Interpreting Weight The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness 1st Edition

Author(s)

Jeffery Sobal

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781351511711, 9780202305783, 9780202305776, 9780203788264, 9781351511704, 9781351511728

Publisher

Routledge

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PDF and EPUB

Description

What is “too fat”? what is “too thin”? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures. Meeting weight expectations is a major concern for many people because failing to do so may incur dire social consequences, such as difficulty in finding a romantic partner or even in locating adequate employment. without these social and cultural pressures, body weight would only be a health issue. while socially constructed standards of body weight may seem immutable, they are continuously recreated through social interactions that perpetuate or transform expectations about fatness and thinness. Written by sociologists, psychologists, and nutritionists, all of the chapters in this book focus on how people construct fatness and thinness, examining different strategies used to interpret body weight, such as negotiating weight identities, reinterpreting weight, and becoming involved in weight-related organizations. Together these chapters emphasize the many ways that people actively define, construct, and enact their fatness and thinness in a variety of settings and situations.

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Interpreting Weight The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness 1st Edition

SKU: 9781351511728

Original price was: $56.95.Current price is: $24.99.

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Full Title

Interpreting Weight The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness 1st Edition

Author(s)

Jeffery Sobal

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781351511728, 9780202305783, 9780202305776, 9780203788264, 9780202366913

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

What is “too fat”? what is “too thin”? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures. Meeting weight expectations is a major concern for many people because failing to do so may incur dire social consequences, such as difficulty in finding a romantic partner or even in locating adequate employment. without these social and cultural pressures, body weight would only be a health issue. while socially constructed standards of body weight may seem immutable, they are continuously recreated through social interactions that perpetuate or transform expectations about fatness and thinness. Written by sociologists, psychologists, and nutritionists, all of the chapters in this book focus on how people construct fatness and thinness, examining different strategies used to interpret body weight, such as negotiating weight identities, reinterpreting weight, and becoming involved in weight-related organizations. Together these chapters emphasize the many ways that people actively define, construct, and enact their fatness and thinness in a variety of settings and situations.