001479634 000__ 05551nam\a22008055i\4500 001479634 001__ 1479634 001479634 003__ DE-B1597 001479634 005__ 20231026035103.0 001479634 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479634 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479634 008__ 230918t20112011nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479634 020__ $$a9780814728758 001479634 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814728758.001.0001$$2doi 001479634 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548095 001479634 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479634 0410_ $$aeng 001479634 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479634 072_7 $$aLIT000000$$2bisacsh 001479634 08204 $$a306.4613$$222 001479634 1001_ $$aFarrell, Amy Erdman, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479634 24510 $$aFat Shame :$$bStigma and the Fat Body in American Culture /$$cAmy Erdman Farrell. 001479634 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2011] 001479634 264_4 $$c©2011 001479634 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479634 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479634 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479634 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479634 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479634 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$t1. Considering Fat Shame -- $$t2. Fat, Modernity, and the Problem of Excess -- $$t3. Fat and the Un-Civilized Body -- $$t4. Feminism, Citizenship, and Fat Stigma -- $$t5. Narrating Fat Shame -- $$t6. Refusing to Apologize -- $$tConclusion. "The horror! The horror!" -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479634 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479634 520__ $$aOne of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011To be fat hasn't always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores this arc, from veneration to shame, examining the historic roots of our contemporary anxiety about fatness. Tracing the cultural denigration of fatness to the mid 19th century, Amy Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body preceded any health concerns about a large body size. Firmly in place by the time the diet industry began to flourish in the 1920s, the development of fat stigma was related not only to cultural anxieties that emerged during the modern period related to consumer excess, but, even more profoundly, to prevailing ideas about race, civilization and evolution. For 19th and early 20th century thinkers, fatness was a key marker of inferiority, of an uncivilized, barbaric, and primitive body. This idea-that fatness is a sign of a primitive person-endures today, fueling both our $60 billion "war on fat" and our cultural distress over the "obesity epidemic."Farrell draws on a wide array of sources, including political cartoons, popular literature, postcards, advertisements, and physicians' manuals, to explore the link between our historic denigration of fatness and our contemporary concern over obesity. Her work sheds particular light on feminisms' fraught relationship to fatness. From the white suffragists of the early 20th century to contemporary public figures like Oprah Winfrey, Monica Lewinsky, and even the Obama family, Farrell explores the ways that those who seek to shed stigmatized identities-whether of gender, race, ethnicity or class-often take part in weight reduction schemes and fat mockery in order to validate themselves as "civilized." In sharp contrast to these narratives of fat shame are the ideas of contemporary fat activists, whose articulation of a new vision of the body Farrell explores in depth. This book is significant for anyone concerned about the contemporary "war on fat" and the ways that notions of the "civilized body" continue to legitimate discrimination and cultural oppression. 001479634 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479634 546__ $$aIn English. 001479634 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479634 650_0 $$aBody image. 001479634 650_0 $$aDiscrimination against overweight persons. 001479634 650_0 $$aPhysical-appearance-based bias. 001479634 650_0 $$aStigma (Social psychology). 001479634 650_4 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$$2sh. 001479634 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479634 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001479634 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814727683 001479634 852__ $$bebk 001479634 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814728758$$zOnline Access 001479634 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479634$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479634 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LT 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LT 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479634 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479634 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479634 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479634 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479634 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479634 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479634 980__ $$aBIB 001479634 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479634 982__ $$aEbook 001479634 983__ $$aOnline