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THE SOCIOLOGY OF FAT
Deborah Lupton, Department of Sociology and
Social Policy, University of Sydney
Model of human fat: „a shocking but strongly
motivating attention getter‟
Body fat as „thing‟ that must be „burnt off your
body‟
Fat body vest: feel what it is like to be fat!
„Obesity is suicide‟: dietary fat as dynamite
Soft drink as fat
The „Measure Up‟ campaign: „Do you measure
up?‟
Toxic fat, toxic bodies: the LiveLighter campaign
Fatty food turning into body fat
The headless fatty
The fat body as unsightly and repellent
Nigella Lawson: “I‟m a great believer in fat”
Dietary fat as gourmet delicacy
Fat activism
The Adipositivity Project
„Freedom from shame‟: Health At Every Size
movement
Orthodox anti-obesity position
• obesity is a disease and leads to other diseases such as diabetes,
cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer, and as a result,
early death
• fat bodies are pathological
• there is an „obesity epidemic‟ that must be contained
• fat bodies are an economic burden on society
• fat people should therefore attempt to lose weight to conform to
the „normal‟ BMI
My study of number of obesity articles in the Sydney Morning
Herald and the British Medical Journal, 1995--2011
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
SMH
BMJ
Academic challenges to the anti-obesity position
• Fat studies
• Critical obesity studies/critical weight studies
• Drawing on sociology, anthropology, critical psychology, cultural
geography, literary studies, media and cultural studies, gender
studies, queer studies, critical disability studies
Political economic approach
• fatness as linked to sociocultural disadvantage, obesogenic
environment, consumerist culture
• anti-obesity discourse and medical power
• drug companies, diet product producers, bariatric surgeons
profiting
• fat discrimination issues
• fat as a feminist issue
Obesity map of the USA: evidence of social
determinants of body weight
Sociocultural meanings of fat
• textual analysis (of media representations, public health
campaigns, medical journals, interview data etc)
• historical perspectives
• cross-cultural perspectives
Sociocultural meanings of fat as a dietary
substance
• once a luxury, sought-after foodstuff
• now reviled in many contexts
• represented as a health risk, toxic to the body: „fat makes you fat‟
• portrayed as disgusting
• some (expensive) fat privileged as part of gourmet cooking
Sociocultural meanings of body fat
• fat bodies as ugly and repulsive
• fat people as lacking self-discipline, lazy, ignorant
• fat bodies encroaching into others‟ space
• the fat body as grotesque
• the fat body as diseased
• fat bodies as inferior
• body fat as toxic
Fat bodies/selves
• fatness as spoilt identity/stigma: Goffman
• phenomenology of fat embodiment: Merleau-Ponty
• the civilized body: Elias
• fat bodies as assemblages: socio-technical/Deleuzian perspective
Foucauldian perspectives
• the government of fat bodies
• biopolitics and biopower
• practices of the self
Feminist philosophy
• fluidities, femininities, leaky uncontained bodies: Grosz, Shildrick
• the abject body: Kristeva
Queer theory: queering fatness
• cultural construction of embodiment/identity
• embodiment and identity as unstable and performative
• the challenging of normativity
Fat activism
fat
activism
feminism
queer
politics
disability
politics
Health
At Every
Size
fat
studies
The Sociology of Fat

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The Sociology of Fat

  • 1. THE SOCIOLOGY OF FAT Deborah Lupton, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney
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  • 4. Model of human fat: „a shocking but strongly motivating attention getter‟
  • 5. Body fat as „thing‟ that must be „burnt off your body‟
  • 6. Fat body vest: feel what it is like to be fat!
  • 7. „Obesity is suicide‟: dietary fat as dynamite
  • 9. The „Measure Up‟ campaign: „Do you measure up?‟
  • 10. Toxic fat, toxic bodies: the LiveLighter campaign
  • 11. Fatty food turning into body fat
  • 13. The fat body as unsightly and repellent
  • 14. Nigella Lawson: “I‟m a great believer in fat”
  • 15. Dietary fat as gourmet delicacy
  • 18. „Freedom from shame‟: Health At Every Size movement
  • 19. Orthodox anti-obesity position • obesity is a disease and leads to other diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer, and as a result, early death • fat bodies are pathological • there is an „obesity epidemic‟ that must be contained • fat bodies are an economic burden on society • fat people should therefore attempt to lose weight to conform to the „normal‟ BMI
  • 20. My study of number of obesity articles in the Sydney Morning Herald and the British Medical Journal, 1995--2011 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 SMH BMJ
  • 21. Academic challenges to the anti-obesity position • Fat studies • Critical obesity studies/critical weight studies • Drawing on sociology, anthropology, critical psychology, cultural geography, literary studies, media and cultural studies, gender studies, queer studies, critical disability studies
  • 22. Political economic approach • fatness as linked to sociocultural disadvantage, obesogenic environment, consumerist culture • anti-obesity discourse and medical power • drug companies, diet product producers, bariatric surgeons profiting • fat discrimination issues • fat as a feminist issue
  • 23. Obesity map of the USA: evidence of social determinants of body weight
  • 24. Sociocultural meanings of fat • textual analysis (of media representations, public health campaigns, medical journals, interview data etc) • historical perspectives • cross-cultural perspectives
  • 25. Sociocultural meanings of fat as a dietary substance • once a luxury, sought-after foodstuff • now reviled in many contexts • represented as a health risk, toxic to the body: „fat makes you fat‟ • portrayed as disgusting • some (expensive) fat privileged as part of gourmet cooking
  • 26. Sociocultural meanings of body fat • fat bodies as ugly and repulsive • fat people as lacking self-discipline, lazy, ignorant • fat bodies encroaching into others‟ space • the fat body as grotesque • the fat body as diseased • fat bodies as inferior • body fat as toxic
  • 27. Fat bodies/selves • fatness as spoilt identity/stigma: Goffman • phenomenology of fat embodiment: Merleau-Ponty • the civilized body: Elias • fat bodies as assemblages: socio-technical/Deleuzian perspective
  • 28. Foucauldian perspectives • the government of fat bodies • biopolitics and biopower • practices of the self
  • 29. Feminist philosophy • fluidities, femininities, leaky uncontained bodies: Grosz, Shildrick • the abject body: Kristeva
  • 30. Queer theory: queering fatness • cultural construction of embodiment/identity • embodiment and identity as unstable and performative • the challenging of normativity