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Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body by Harjunen, Hannele; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body- Front Cover 1 Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body 2 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Chapter 1: Introduction and personal prologue 12 Neoliberal society, neoliberal bodies? 18 The fat body in neoliberal culture 20 Healthy, acceptable, and moral bodies . . . and their opposites 21 Feminist body studies, fatness, and feminist fat studies 23 The fat body as the target of biopower 25 Methodology and data 28 Outline of the book 30 Notes 32 Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, governmentality, and the body 34 From neoliberalism to neoliberal governmentality 34 Governmentality and neoliberal governmentality 35 Consumer culture and the body as a “project” 38 The disembodied social analysis of the neoliberal economy 42 The body as an intersection of fat, class, and gender 44 Notes 46 Chapter 3: The biopolitics of weight and the obesity epidemic 47 The biopolitics of weight 47 Biomedicine and normal body weight 49 Body weight and health 51 The “obesity epidemic discourse” . . . epidemic 53 Moral panic and the metaphorical illness of obesity 56 Notes 59 Chapter 4: The economisation of health and the fat body 60 Health and

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Author
Harjunen, Hannele;
Published
2016
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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