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By Jayne Raisborough (auth.)

Our televisions bulge with weight reduction indicates, because the information warn of the weight problems epidemic. fats is this type of villain that higher individuals are stigmatized and all of us are seduced by way of life-changing claims of a multi-billion pound vitamin undefined. but, after we query if our toilet scales can fairly let us know approximately our well-being, we commence to invite simply why and the way fats holds such fascination.
In this ebook, Jayne Raisborough explores interpretations of fats our bodies from Palaeolithic Europe to Poverty Porn television to argue that fat’s materiality makes it ripe for stigmatising institutions. even if, specifically in a social context that offers wellbeing and fitness as a question of selection, fats additionally emerges as an excellent redemptive substance to be pummelled and starved into submission. This e-book offers a ‘fat sensibility’ to illustrate how fats helps us all develop into responsibilised healthy-citizens. It asks simply what self are we being requested to vitamin ourselves into?

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Dear Reader: A Personal Note on Language Throughout this book I use the phrases ‘larger people’ and ‘fat bodies’ but I do so with a sense of inadequacy born from the realization that many of the terms, phrases, and descriptions of weight and bodies are value-laden. My concern is not to re-objectify, re-offend, or re-stigmatize but I am both humbled and haunted by the possibility and likelihood of this. I use ‘fat bodies’ as way of capturing just why it is that some bodies are overrepresented in reality media.

I have coined the term ‘abese’ to capture the always and already abject nature of medicalized corporeality, which is amplified when put to use in austerity contexts. Yet, I suggest that cultural labours of Othering also take the form of more benevolent representations. In an extension of the argument developed in Chap. 3, I chart benevolent representations in weightfocused shows and discuss how these may offer more palatable ways of securing public consent for policies that threaten to radically reshape the UK welfare system.

It seems that fat and corpulence have always been with us—they are not ‘new’ issues—and that we, across our diverse collectives, cultures, and codes, have perceived fat in rather mixed ways. There is support, then, for Gard and Wright’s assertion that it is rather ‘simplistic and naïve’ to suggest anti-fat attitudes are a recent phenomenon and that once fat was the subject of praise (2005: 69); they argue that it is more useful and accurate to perceive any celebration of larger bodies as existing alongside denigration.

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