| Description |
xii, 260 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Social problems and social issues |
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Social problems and social issues.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem: when, then, does body weight become a social problem?" "The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness. The contributors consider historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives. These different perspectives illustrate the multifaceted nature of obesity and eating disorders, providing examples of how a variety of social groups construct weight as a social problem."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Food -- Social aspects.
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Nutrition -- Social aspects.
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Obesity -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Maurer, Donna, 1961- editor
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Sobal, Jeffery, 1950- editor
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| LC no. |
99013616 |
| ISBN |
9780202305806 (paperback) |
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