Deborah Mcphail

Contours of the Nation

Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970

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Produktbeschreibung

Contouring the Nation is the first book which historically explores obesity in Canada from a critical perspective. Deborah McPhail demonstrates how obesity as a problem was affixed to particular populations in order to separate true Canadians from others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781442612723
• ISBN-10: 144261272X
• Artikelnr.: 46768681

Autorenporträt

Deborah McPhail is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: "This is the Face of Obesity": Race, Class, Gender, and the
Feminization of Fat
Chapter 2: The "Kitchen Demon" and the "Tubby Hubby": Reproductive labour
and the nuclear family in obesity discourse
Chapter 3: "Of Missiles and Muscles": Fitness, Masculinity, and Obesity
during the Cold War
Chapter 4: "The White Man’s Burden"? Obesity and Colonialism in the
Developing North
Conclusion: Asking Different Questions
Bibliography