GWST 3547 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nouveau Riche, Delayed Gratification, Unbridled
6 Oct 2017
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Discuss forums of what is written inscribes dominant ideological paradigms and as a result, these circulate a particular set of ideas about people who are fat and about fat. As charlotte cooper tells us, the emerging field of fat studies seeks to problematize these dominant ideas and practices. It isn"t that there isn"t a great deal written about fat bodies, there is, however, most. It isn"t the fat body that is at issue but rather the cultural production of fat phobia. With all the ways we are asked to think of fat scientifically [such as bmi body mass index] once again science disciplines us under its spell but there is nothing. Dominant obesity discourse advances fatness as a pathological, medical, psychological problem that must be fixed. objective about objectivity. But new paradigms are emerging within this field: Fat acceptance, size acceptance, fat activism, fat liberation and fat politics.
