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- catalog abstract ""Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem: when, then, does body weight become a social problem?" "The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness. The contributors consider historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives. These different perspectives illustrate the multifaceted nature of obesity and eating disorders, providing examples of how a variety of social groups construct weight as a social problem."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11421598.
- catalog contributor b11421599.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem: when, then, does body weight become a social problem?" "The chapters in this volume offer several perspectives that can be used to understand the way society deals with fatness and thinness. The contributors consider historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives. These different perspectives illustrate the multifaceted nature of obesity and eating disorders, providing examples of how a variety of social groups construct weight as a social problem."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Body weight as a social problem / Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Children and weight control: priorities in the United States and France / Peter N. Stearns -- Fat boys and goody girls: Hilde Bruch's work on eating disorders and the American anxiety about democracy, 1930-1960 / Paula Saukko -- Constitutional types, institutional forms: reconfiguring diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to obesity in early twentieth-century biomedical investigation / Mark T. Hamin -- Defining perfect and not-so-perfect bodies: the rise and fall of the "Dreyer method" for the assessment of physique and fitness, 1918-26 / David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Ideal weight/ideal women: society constructs the female / Nita Mary McKinley -- Dieting women: self-surveillance and the body panopticon / John Germov and Lauren Williams -- Fleshing out the discomforts of femininity: the parallel cases of female anorexia and male compulsive bodybuilding / Martha McCaughey -- Commodity knowledge in consumer culture: the role of nutritional health promotion in the making of the diet industry / S. Bryn Austin -- Meanings of weight among dietitians and nutritionists / Ellen S. Parham -- Too skinny or vibrant and healthy?: weight management in the vegetarian movement / Donna Maurer -- Size acceptance movement and the social construction of body weight / Jeffery Sobal.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 260 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0202305791 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0202305805 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Social problems and social issues".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hawthorne, N.Y. : Aldine de Gruyter,".
- catalog subject "2000 F-176".
- catalog subject "306.4/61 21".
- catalog subject "Food Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Food.".
- catalog subject "Nutrition Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Nutritional Physiological Phenomena".
- catalog subject "Obesity Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Obesity.".
- catalog subject "Prejudice.".
- catalog subject "RA645.O23 W45 1999".
- catalog subject "Social Perception.".
- catalog subject "WD 210 W4198 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Body weight as a social problem / Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer -- Children and weight control: priorities in the United States and France / Peter N. Stearns -- Fat boys and goody girls: Hilde Bruch's work on eating disorders and the American anxiety about democracy, 1930-1960 / Paula Saukko -- Constitutional types, institutional forms: reconfiguring diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to obesity in early twentieth-century biomedical investigation / Mark T. Hamin -- Defining perfect and not-so-perfect bodies: the rise and fall of the "Dreyer method" for the assessment of physique and fitness, 1918-26 / David Smith and Sally Horrocks -- Ideal weight/ideal women: society constructs the female / Nita Mary McKinley -- Dieting women: self-surveillance and the body panopticon / John Germov and Lauren Williams -- Fleshing out the discomforts of femininity: the parallel cases of female anorexia and male compulsive bodybuilding / Martha McCaughey -- Commodity knowledge in consumer culture: the role of nutritional health promotion in the making of the diet industry / S. Bryn Austin -- Meanings of weight among dietitians and nutritionists / Ellen S. Parham -- Too skinny or vibrant and healthy?: weight management in the vegetarian movement / Donna Maurer -- Size acceptance movement and the social construction of body weight / Jeffery Sobal.".
- catalog title "Weighty issues : fatness and thinness as social problems / Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer, editors.".
- catalog type "text".