Interpreting Weight The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness

This text focuses on how people construct fatness and thinness, examining different strategies used to interpret body weight, such as negotiating weight identities, reinterpreting weight, and becoming involved in weight-related organizations.

About the author

Jeffery Sobal

Summary

What is "too fat?" "Too thin"? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures

Product details

• Authors: Donna Maurer, Jeffery Sobal, Jeffrey Maurer Sobal, Jeffrey Sobal
• Assisted by: Donna Maurer (Editor), Jeffery Sobal (Editor), Jeffrey Sobal (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.10.1999
• Subject: Guides > Health > Diet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research
• EAN: 9780202305776
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30577-6
• Pages: 274
• Series: Social problems & social issues; Social Problems & Social Issues S.; Social Problems & Social Issues
• Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MEDICAL / Nutrition, Dietetics & nutrition, The self, ego, identity, personality, Oa, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social issues & processes, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Dietetics and nutrition, Social and ethical issues, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Behaviorism, Young Men, Contemporary Society, Fat people, ICP, symbolic interactionism, qualitative health research, Positive body image, Compulsive eating, narrative resistance, bridal magazines, sociocultural body norms, weight identity negotiation, body weight stigma, social construction of fatness and thinness, obesity social perception, Med Icalization, Nonactivist Group, Discursive Constraint, Feeling Fat, Weight Fluctuation, Sexually Desirable, Normal Body Image, Extreme Negative End, overweight women, Clinical Anorexic, Reflective Resistance, Overweight People