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Obesity Has Dominated Popular Media As One Of The Most Pressing Issues Of The New Millennium. In The Us, High Rates Of Obesity, And By Extension, Fat People Are Often Blamed For Rising Health-care Costs And A Weakening Of National Security. What Does It Mean To Be Considered Fat During A Time When Obesity Is Framed As A Threat? When Body Fat Is The Enemy, How Does The Line Between Acceptable And Too Fat Get Defined Moment-to-moment As People Make Value Judgments About Each Other’s Bodies In The Course Of Everyday Life? Nicole Taylor Explores How Teens Navigated The Fraught Realities Of Body Image Within A High School Culture That Reinforced Widespread Beliefs About Body Size As A Matter Of Personal Responsibility While Offering Limited Opportunity To Exercise And An Abundance Of Fattening Junk Foods. Drawing On Daily Observations, Interviews, And Focus Groups With Teens, Schooled On Fat Takes The Reader Into Their Lives To Show How, Through Everyday Language, They Managed Their Body Size, Social Status, And Identities As Body-conscious Individuals. Taylor Traces Policy Efforts To Illustrate Where We Are As A Nation In Addressing Childhood Obesity And Offers Practical Strategies Sch

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Author

Nicole Taylor

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138924703

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Medical, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13