KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Moral Panic, Shared Experience, Consumerism
20 Dec 2013
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Multiple definitions of fatness (cid:173) fatness as: A pathological, medical, psychological, and social phenomenon. A fact, a body mass index (bmi) of 25 or above. Obesity discourse (cid:173) narrow view of fatness (cid:173) lens of medication (cid:173) fatness as pathology. Fat studies (cid:173) critical (cid:173) social model (cid:173) focus is not on the fat body itself (cid:173) seeks to develop fat culture. A fluid subject position relative to social norms. Critique of the obesity epidemic 3 key debates. I. e. , bmi: critique of obesity science and claims made about fat bodies (cid:173, global obesity epidemic and consumerism, moral discourse around fatness (cid:173) moral panic. Beauty and body work can empower us, but can produce hegemonic ideas. Our activities are influenced by both agency and social structures (cid:173) Even if we are doing certain activities out of free will, the context in which we do them is still there (women vs. men)
