Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Lists of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
PART A Introduction
	1 The worlds of critical obesity studies
PART B History
	2 A critical obesidarium (in English)
	3 How body size became a disease: a history of the body mass index and its rise to clinical importance
	4 Obesity in transition: a challenge in modern history
	5 Obesity in Brazil: between liberties and pathologies
	6 Middle-aged businessman and social progress: the links between risk factor research and the obesity epidemic
	7 Crisis revisited: historical notes on a modern ‘obesity epidemic’
PART C Theory
	8 Devil pray: fat studies in an obesity research world
	9 Not the medicine needed? Governing fat women’s bodies via exercise prescriptions
	10 New materialist enactments
	11 Doing fat with post-developmental pedagogies
	12 A personal reflection on editing: ‘unmasking’ the critical obesity researcher against itself
PART D Food
	13 Sweetening the “war on obesity”
	14 Obesity and its cures as socio-ecological fixes for agro-food capitalism
	15 Encountering ‘healthy’ food in Mexican schools
	16 Navigating the ‘norm’ in food experiences and healthy lifestyles of Chinese international students in Australia
	17 School food in Australia – a dog’s breakfast?
	18 Obesity and the proper meal at workplace: French and English at the table and (or beyond) the culturalist explanation
	19 Junk food marketing, childhood obesity, and the production of (un)certainty
PART E Bodies
	20 (Re)defining language : ‘fat’, ‘overweight’, and ‘obese’ identities
	21 Skinny selves in a fat-obsessed world
	22 The ubiquity of the experience of being “too fat”: perspectives from young people in Germany
	23 A mother of a problem: addressing the gendering of obesity panic
	24 Fighting fat in families?
	25 Goldilocks Day: opt simal activity mixes in Australian children
	26 Fat activism and physical activity
	27 Wayfinding obesity within the VA’ of critical beauty
PART F Media
	28 News reporting on the “obesity epidemic” and how it worsens weight-based stigma
	29 The spectacle of obesity in reality makeover shows in Chile
	30 The rise of the carnivore diet and the fetishizing of indigenous foodways
	31 A study of an anti-obesity, anti-obesity campaign
PART G Policies
	32 Evidence as a fig leaf: obesity policies and institutional filters in Denmark
	33 The metabolic rift between culture and liberalism in obesity interventions and policy
	34 A matter of weight? Anti-obesity strategies in Spain
	35 New language, old assumptions: the shifting language in British Columbia’s physical and health education curricula
	36 The ethics of obesity policy
PART H Future directions
	37 Frameworks and ideologies for fat non-discrimination rights
	38 Changing attitudes: a review and critique of weight stigma intervention research
	39 A critique of obesity as a category of malnutrition in all its forms
Index