Fat Shame Farrell Amy Erdman
Fat Shame Farrell Amy Erdman One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011A necessary cultural and historical discussion on the stigma of fatnessTo be fat hasn't…
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Fat Shame Farrell Amy Erdman
One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011A necessary cultural and historical discussion on the stigma of fatnessTo be fat hasn't always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Tracing the cultural denigration of fatness to the mid 19th century, Amy Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body preceded any health concerns about a large body size. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores this arc, from veneration to shame, examining the historic roots of our contemporary anxiety about fatness.
Firmly in place by the time the diet industry began to flourish in the 1920s, the development of fat stigma was related not only to cultural anxieties that emerged during the modern period related to consumer