Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
Our televisions bulge with weight-loss shows, as the news warn of the obesity epidemic. Fat is such a villain that larger people are stigmatized and we all are seduced by life-changing claims of a multi-billion pound diet industry. Yet, when we question i
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Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
Jayne Raisborough
Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
Jayne Raisborough School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-28886-8 ISBN 978-1-137-28887-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-28887-5
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In memory of Anthony Wardner Kick, 1940–2015
Acknowledgements
Thanks are extended to all at the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK. Thanks to Matt Adams for introducing me to benevolent sexism and stereotype content. Huge thanks to Ben Finchman, Hannah Frith, and Anne Dobson for keeping me writing. Katherine Johnson and Dee Rudebeck helped me think through the aspects and impacts of the writing process and offered great support. Peter Coyne, Mark Erickson, Kay Aranda, and Cassie Ogden provided resources and knowledge. Thanks to Angela Meadows and those of the International Weight Stigma Conferences for the opportunity to present and think through some of the ideas contained here. Thanks to my students on the ‘Lifestyle Media and Society’ module where I first started thinking about what was achieved in weight-loss makeover shows; I thank, in particular, Ryan Gingell, Anna Roscher, and Maddy Sheahan, and those who formed part of the Size Matters Interest Group. Paul Andon, Alan Bagnall, Jen Cattrell, Chris Cumming, Karen Falvey, Lynne Farrall, Liz Gunsel, Linda Crook, Paula Lopez, Michelle McGovern, Natalie Pitimson, and Lizzie Ward provided much needed encouragement and cheering on from the sidel
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