Fat shame : stigma and the fat body in American culture
by
Farrell, Amy Erdman
Title
:
Fat shame : stigma and the fat body in American culture
Author
:
Farrell, Amy Erdman
ISBN
:
9780814727690
Personal Author
:
Farrell, Amy Erdman
Publication Information
:
New York : New York University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
:
x, 209 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
Considering fat shame -- Fat, modernity, and the problem of excess -- Fat and the un-civilized body -- Feminism, citizenship, and fat stigma -- Narrating fat shame -- Refusing to apologize -- Conclusion : the horror, the horror.
Subject Term
:
Body image.
Stigma (Social psychology)
Discrimination against overweight persons
Physical-appearance-based bias
Body Image -- United States
Overweight -- psychology -- United States
Social Stigma -- United States