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Women and Fat – Approaches to the Social Study of Fatness

Hannele Harjunen

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Description:This doctoral dissertation explores fatness from the viewpoint of social sciences and women’s studies. It consists of four separately published articles and a summary article.The first article focuses on the normalization of fat female bodies in the school environment (Harjunen 2002) and the second article compares the medicalization of disability and fatness in the light of the so-called social model of disability (Harjunen 2004). The third article deals with the stigma of fatness (2004b) and the fourth discusses women’s fatness through the concept of liminality (2007). The summary article draws together the themes that have been explored in the four articles and expands the discussion.Non-medical research on fatness has been sparse until recently; fatness has predominantly been seen as both a medical problem and a medicalized condition. The starting point of this doctoral dissertation is the conception of fatness as a multifaceted, gendered, and socially constructed phenomenon and experience. By looking for new ways of studying and conceptualizing fatness, the research aims to provide an alternative view to that presented by the dominant medical paradigm of fatness. The theoretical starting point of this research can be found in Foucauldian thought and the social constructionist idea of the body as a discursive category created, produced, and reproduced in social interaction and through social practices (e.g. Foucault 1979) – such social practices as medicine, the health care system, school, religion, and the media (e.g. Harjunen 2002 & 2004).Methodologically, this doctoral dissertation draws from and contributes to feminist studies on the gendered body as well as to the currently emerging discipline of fat studies, which is sometimes referred to as “critical fat studies”.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women and Fat – Approaches to the Social Study of Fatness. To get started finding Women and Fat – Approaches to the Social Study of Fatness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 170

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Jyväskylä

Release: 2009

ISBN: 9513937755

Description: This doctoral dissertation explores fatness from the viewpoint of social sciences and women’s studies. It consists of four separately published articles and a summary article.The first article focuses on the normalization of fat female bodies in the school environment (Harjunen 2002) and the second article compares the medicalization of disability and fatness in the light of the so-called social model of disability (Harjunen 2004). The third article deals with the stigma of fatness (2004b) and the fourth discusses women’s fatness through the concept of liminality (2007). The summary article draws together the themes that have been explored in the four articles and expands the discussion.Non-medical research on fatness has been sparse until recently; fatness has predominantly been seen as both a medical problem and a medicalized condition. The starting point of this doctoral dissertation is the conception of fatness as a multifaceted, gendered, and socially constructed phenomenon and experience. By looking for new ways of studying and conceptualizing fatness, the research aims to provide an alternative view to that presented by the dominant medical paradigm of fatness. The theoretical starting point of this research can be found in Foucauldian thought and the social constructionist idea of the body as a discursive category created, produced, and reproduced in social interaction and through social practices (e.g. Foucault 1979) – such social practices as medicine, the health care system, school, religion, and the media (e.g. Harjunen 2002 & 2004).Methodologically, this doctoral dissertation draws from and contributes to feminist studies on the gendered body as well as to the currently emerging discipline of fat studies, which is sometimes referred to as “critical fat studies”.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women and Fat – Approaches to the Social Study of Fatness. To get started finding Women and Fat – Approaches to the Social Study of Fatness, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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