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Watching Our Weights

2019-02-07 Health & Fitness
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Release : 2019-02-07
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Watching Our Weights by : Melissa Zimdars

Download or read book Watching Our Weights written by Melissa Zimdars. This book was released on 2019-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.

Watching Our Weights

2019-02-07 Social Science
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Release : 2019-02-07
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Book Synopsis Watching Our Weights by : Melissa Zimdars

Download or read book Watching Our Weights written by Melissa Zimdars. This book was released on 2019-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Food Writing Section, USA​ 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 well as resistant discourses of the body. Melissa Zimdars thus examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness, and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favor of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body. Watching Our Weights weaves together analyses of media industry lore and decisions, communication and health policies, medical research, activist projects, popular culture, and media texts to establish both how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.

Exercised

2021-01-05 Education
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Release : 2021-01-05
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 983/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Exercised by : Daniel Lieberman

Download or read book Exercised written by Daniel Lieberman. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise - to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, the author recounts how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. Drawing on insights from biology and anthropology, the author suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather that shaming and blaming people for avoiding it

The Politics of Weight

2019-05-15 Social Science
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Release : 2019-05-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Weight by : Amelia Greta Morris

Download or read book The Politics of Weight written by Amelia Greta Morris. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body. In feminist theory, there is no greater site of contestation than that of the body, and Morris explores how these debates often become centred upon a dichotomy between oppression and liberation. Whilst there is a vast diversity of scholarship that challenges this binary including post-colonial, post-structuralist and Marxist feminist work, the dichotomy nevertheless endures. The Politics of Weight argues that the ‘feminine’ body is not simply a site of oppression or liberation by drawing upon the intersections that exist between Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and post-structuralist feminist work on the body. This provides a unique lens for exploring weight. Through in-depth analysis of interviews with women who seemingly sit on either side of the ‘oppression’ and ‘liberation’ debate, members of dieting clubs and fat activists, the book highlights the complexities that surround women’s relationship to weight and the body. Likewise it draws upon the wealth of black feminist scholarship to explore the discourses surrounding Oprah Winfrey’s dieting ‘journey,’ seeking to demonstrate how discipline and race interact and how this plays out in dieting and weight. The Politics of Weight will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, sociology, geography and political science.

The Weight Of Ink

2017-06-06 Fiction
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Release : 2017-06-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Weight Of Ink by : Rachel Kadish

Download or read book The Weight Of Ink written by Rachel Kadish. This book was released on 2017-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of newly discovered seventeenth-century Jewish documents, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph." Electrifying and ambitious, The Weight of Ink is about women separated by centuries—and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind.

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