Weighty Problems
Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp
$95.71
- Paperback
170 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2019
Summary
Many parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780813599113 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0813599113 |
| Author: | Laura Backstrom |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
| Imprint: | Rutgers University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 170 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Recommended.“— Choice “Weighty Problems is an engaging and well-written exploration of the ways in which current cultural framings of childhood obesity are experienced by children. In focusing on how children navigate the cultural meanings of fatness, Backstrom shows that the internalization of these messages carries over into adulthood.“— Natalie Boero, author of Killer Fat “Fat camps are ostensibly designed to help kids lose weight by a compulsory diet. Like every other diet, it does not work. What the kids take away and keep is that their self-worth depends on their body size and that they do not measure up to societal expectations, learning that they must change themselves rather than celebrate what makes us all different. Weighty Problems is a wake-up call to adults to rethink what we are teaching children. A must-read for those interested in child health and well-being.“— Abigail C. Saguy, author of What’s Wrong with Fat?
About The Author
Laura Backstrom
LAURA BACKSTROM is an assistant professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
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