Watching Our Weights by Melissa Zimdars - 9780813593548

Watching Our WeightsThe Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the \""Obesity Epidemic\""\nAuthor(s): Melissa Zimdars\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813593548, 978-0813593548\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Food Writing Section, USA\n Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. While televisionespecially reality televisionis typically understood to promote individual self-discipline and expert interventions as necessary for transforming fat bodies into thin bodies, fat representations and narratives on television also create space for alternative as well as resistant discourses of the body. Melissa Zimdars thus examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, .