Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies

Part A: Introduction. 1.The Worlds of Critical Obesity Studies. Part B: History. 2.A Critical Obesidarium (in English). 3.How Body Size Became a Disease: A History of Body Mass Index and its Rise to Clinical Importance. 4.Obesity in Transition: A Challenge in Modern History. 5.Obesity in Brazil: Between Liberties and Pathologies. 6.Middle-Aged Businessman and Social Progress: The Links between Risk Factor Research and the Obesity Epidemic. 7.Crisis revisited: Historical Notes on Modern 'Obesity Epidemic'. Part C: Theory. 8.Devil Pray: Fat Studies in an Obesity Research World. 9.Not the Medicine Needed? Governing Women's Bodies via Exercise Prescription. 10.New Materialist Enactment. 11.Doing Fat with Post-Developmental Pedagogies. 12.A Personal Reflection on Editing: 'Unmasking' The Critical Obesity Researcher against Itself. Part D: Food. 13.Sweetening the 'War on Obesity'. 14.Obesity and its Cures as Socio-Ecological Fixes for Agro-Food Capitalism. 15.Encountering 'Healthy' Food in Mexican Schools. 16.Navigating the 'Norma' In Food Experiences and Healthy Lifestyles of Chines International Students in Australia. 17.School Food in Australia- A Dog's Breakfast? 18.Obesity and the Proper Meal at Workplace. French and English at the Table and (or Beyond) The Culturalist Explanation. 19.Junk Food Marketing, Childhood Obesity and the Production of (Un)certainty). Part E: Bodies. 20.(Re)defining Language: 'Fat', 'Overweight' , and 'Obese' Identities. 21.Skinny Selves in a Fat Obsessed World. 22.The Ubiquity of the Experience of Being 'Too Fat': Perspectives from Young People in Germany. 23.A Mother of a Problem: Addressing the Gendering of Obesity Panic. 24.Fighting Fat in Families. 25.Goldilocks Days: Optimal Activity Mixes in Australian Children. 26.Fat Activism and Physical Activity. 27.Wayfinding Obesity within the 'VA' of Critical Beauty. Part F: Media. 28.News Reporting on the 'Obesity Epidemic' and How it Worsens Weight-Based Stigma. 29.The Spectacle of Obesity in Reality Makeover Shows in Chile. 30.The Rise of the Carnivore Diet: And the Fetishizing of Ingidenous Foodways. 31.A Study of An Anti-Obesity, Anti-Obesity Campaign. Part G: Policies. 32.Evidence as a Fig Leaf: Obesity Policies and Institutional Filters in Denmark. 33.The Metabolic Rift Between Culture and Liberalism in Obesity Interventions and Policy. 34.A Matter of Weight? Anti-Obesity Strategies in Spain. 35.New Language, Old Assumptions: The Shape Shifting Language in British Columbia's Physical and Health Education Curricula. 36.The Ethics of Obesity Policy. Part H: Future Directions. 37.Frameworks and Ideologies for Fat Non-Discrimination Rights. 38.Changing Attitudes: A Review and Critique of Weight Stigma Intervention Research. 39.A Critique of Obesity as a Category of Malnutrition in All its Forms