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BL
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701044
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b523233
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| Main Entry
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Farrell, Amy Erdman
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| Title & Author
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Fat shame : : stigma and the fat body in American culture /\ Amy Erdman Farrell
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: New York University Press,, c2011
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x, 209 p. :: ill., facsims., ports. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0814727689 (cl : alk. paper)
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: 0814727697 (pb : alk. paper)
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: 0814728340 (ebook)
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: 9780814727683 (cl : alk. paper)
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: 9780814727690 (pb : alk. paper)
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: 9780814728345 (ebook)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Acknowledgments -- Considering fat shame -- Fat, modernity, and the problem of excess -- Fat and the un-civilized body -- Feminism, citizenship, and fat stigma -- Narrating fat shame -- Refusing to apologize -- Conclusion: Horror, the horror -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
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| Abstract
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Locating the origins of the cultural denigration of fatness in the mid 19th century, Amy Erdman Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body preceded any health concerns about a large body size. Farrell draws on a wide array of sources, including political cartoons, popular literature, postcards, advertisements, and physician's manuals to explore the link between our historic denigration of fatness and our contemporary concern over obesity. She 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."--[book cover]
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Body image
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Discrimination against overweight persons
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Physical-appearance-based bias
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Stigma (Social psychology)
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Body Image-- United States
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Overweight-- psychology-- United States
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Social Stigma-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/613
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| LC Classification
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BF697.5.B63F37 2011
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| NLM classification
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2011 F-595
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BF 697.5.B63
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| Parallel Title
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Stigma & the fat body in American culture
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: Stigma and the fat body in American culture
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