Watching Our Weights
Download or Read eBook Watching Our Weights PDF written by Melissa Zimdars and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Melissa Zimdars |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2019-02-07 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780813593548 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0813593549 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Watching Our Weights by : Melissa Zimdars
Book excerpt: Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.
