Lee F Monaghan

Men and the War on Obesity

A Sociological Study

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Produktbeschreibung

Lee F. Monaghan offers a timely, critical and original take on the obesity debate, bringing male bodies into the frame and questioning the claim from public health that millions of people are unhealthy because they are 'overweight' or 'obese'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780415407120
• ISBN-10: 0415407125
• Artikelnr.: 23361315

Autorenporträt

Lee F. Monaghan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Beyond Militarized Medicine 2. Bodily Alignment and
Accounts: From Excuses to Repudiation 3. Smoking Guns, Wartime Injury and
Survival: Men and Dieting 4. McDonaldizing Men's Bodies? Rationalization,
Irrationalities and Resistances 5. Physical Activity and Obesity Fighting
Campaigns: Men's Critical Talk 6. Conclusion: Social Fitness and Health at
Every Size