Framing Fat: Competing Constructions in Contemporary Culture

by Samantha Kwan

Book Overview

According to public health officials, obesity poses significant health risks and has become a modern-day epidemic. A closer look at this so-called epidemic, however, suggests that there are multiple perspectives on the fat body, not all of which view obesity as a health hazard.

Alongside public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advertisers of the fashion-beauty complex, food industry advocates at the Center...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813560918
• ISBN13: 9780813560915
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary