Fat - 2nd Edition

Name: Fat - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Fat\nby Deborah Lupton\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Deborah Lupton\nTitle: Fat\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociology\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd\nPublication year: 2018\nEdition: 2\nISBN-13: 9781138493049\nISBN-10: 113849304X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized, and treated with derision and even repulsion and disgust. Medical and public health experts continue to insist that.