Watching Our Weights: The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the "Obesity Epidemic"

Examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness, and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favour of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body.

• | Author: Melissa Zimdars
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2019
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780813593555
• | ISBN-10: 0813593557