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Weighty Problems : Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp / Laura Backstrom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813599113
  • 9780813599151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 618.92/398 23
LOC classification:
  • RJ399.C6 B33 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Embodied Inequality, Childhood Obesity, and the "Problem Child" -- 2. Studying Camp Odyssey -- 3. Learning Embodied Inequality through Social Comparisons -- 4. "It's Not a Fat Camp": The Decision to Attend Camp -- 5. "They Were Born Lucky": Weight Attribution among the Campers -- 6. Change Your Body, Change Yourself: Camp Resocialization -- 7. The Benefits of Weight Loss Camp . . . and the Dark Side -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
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 contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Embodied Inequality, Childhood Obesity, and the "Problem Child" -- 2. Studying Camp Odyssey -- 3. Learning Embodied Inequality through Social Comparisons -- 4. "It's Not a Fat Camp": The Decision to Attend Camp -- 5. "They Were Born Lucky": Weight Attribution among the Campers -- 6. Change Your Body, Change Yourself: Camp Resocialization -- 7. The Benefits of Weight Loss Camp . . . and the Dark Side -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

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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 contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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