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.
While television--especially reality television--is typically understood to promote individual self-discipline and expert interventions as necessary for transforming fat bodies into thin bodies, fat representations and narratives on television also create space for alternative as w.
Rutgers University Press Watching our weights: the contradictions of televising fatness in the obesity epidemic, paperback/melissa zimdars
