Laura Backstrom

Weighty Problems: Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp

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Produktbeschreibung

By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780813599120
• ISBN-10: 0813599121
• Artikelnr.: 54153320

Autorenporträt

LAURA BACKSTROM is an assistant professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1          Embodied Inequality, Childhood Obesity, and the “Problem Child”
2          Studying Camp Odyssey
3          Learning Embodied Inequality through Social Comparisons
4          “It’s Not A Fat Camp:” The Decision to Attend Camp
5          Change Your Body, Change Yourself:  Camp Resocialization
6          The Benefits of Weight Loss Camp…and the Dark Side
7          “They Were Born Lucky:” Weight Attribution among the Campers
8          Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Index