Sin or Slim?: Christian morality and the politics of personal choice in a secular commercial weight loss setting
Is fat a sin? Popular knowledge' about obesity which frames fat as an avoidable behavioural condition would certainly suggest it can be blamed on the fat person. Discourses of health reproduced within public policy and media reporting assist in the pathologization of fat bodies, insisting that...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2013]
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Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 92-109 |
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B Choice B Morality B fat B weight loss |
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