The Politics of Weight Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting /

• Main Author: Morris, Amelia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociology.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Gender Studies.; Cultural and Media Studies, general.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body. In feminist theory, there is no greater site of contestation than that of the body, and Morris explores how these debates often become centred upon a dichotomy between oppression and liberation. Whils...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Watching our Weight: An Introduction
• 2. The Dichotomy of Power: Feminist Debates on the Body
• 3. The Dichotomy of Power in Dieting
• 4. The 'O' Factor: Foucault, Race and Oprah's Body Journey
• 5. Fat Activism and Body Positivity: freedom from dieting?
• 6. The Body, Power and Dieting: Beyond the Binary.