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Weighty Problems: Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp
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by Laura Backstrom


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Many parents, teachers, and doctors believe that childhood obesity is a social problem that needs to be solved. Yet, missing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems details processes of embodied inequality: how the children came to recognize inequalities related to their body size, how they explained the causes of those differences, how they responded to micro-level injustices in their lives, and how their participation in a weight loss program impacted their developing self-image. The book finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.

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  • Title Weighty Problems: Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp
  • Author Laura Backstrom
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 170
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN 9780813599120 / 0813599121
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Weight loss - Psychological aspects, Body image in children
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018022089
  • Dewey Decimal Code 618.923

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LAURA BACKSTROM is an assistant professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
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