Weighty Problems

Weighty Problems
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9780813599137
ISBN-13 : 081359913X
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Book Synopsis Weighty Problems by : Laura Backstrom

Download or read book Weighty Problems written by Laura Backstrom and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.


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