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The weight of images

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Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
242

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Subjects

Body image disturbance, Body image, Psychological aspects, Human body in mass media, Mass media in health education, Obesity, Weight loss, Body Image, Weight Loss, Troubles de l'image du corps, Image du corps, Aspect psychologique, Corps humain dans les médias, Médias en éducation sanitaire, Obésité, Perte de poids, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, Popular Culture

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Cover of: Weight of Images
Weight of Images: Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Cover of: Weight of Images
Weight of Images: Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Weight of Images
Weight of Images: Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Cover of: Weight of Images
Weight of Images: Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Weight of Images
Weight of Images: Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The weight of images
The weight of images: affect, body image and fat in the media
2014, Ashgate
in English
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Table of Contents

Introduction : the weight of looks
Threatening information : politics of fear in the news
Inciting transformation : dieting away disgust and shame
Disturbing incongruity : laughter as corporeal training
Intruding explosions : stretching bodies and death
Affirming positivity : desire and fat acceptance
Expanding body images : conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-231) and index.

Published in
Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT
Series
Gender, bodies and transformation
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/613
Library of Congress
RC569.5.B65 K97 2014, RC569.5.B65K97 2014, RC569.5.B65 K97 2014eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 242 pages
Number of pages
242

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31163571M
Internet Archive
weightofimagesaf0000kyro
ISBN 10
1472413067
ISBN 13
9781472413062, 9781472413079, 9781472413086
LCCN
2013034140
OCLC/WorldCat
869474083, 861788812

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