Obesity in Canada : : Critical Perspectives / / ed. by Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail, Wendy Mitchinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Beausoleil, Natalie,; Brady, Jennifer,; Elliott, Charlene,; Ellison, Jenny,; Gard, Michael,; Gingras, Jacqui,; Holmes, Jacqueline Schoemaker,; Jette, Shannon,; McNaughton, Darlene,; McPhail, Deborah,; Mcphail, Deborah,; Mitchinson, Wendy,; Norman, Moss E.,; Paradis, Elise,; Petherick, LeAnne,; Poudrier, Jennifer,; Rail, Geneviève,; Rice, Carla,; Rochefort, Julie E.,; Senchuk, Andrea,; Smith, Cynthia,; Ward, Pamela,
• HerausgeberIn: Ellison, Jenny ,; McPhail, Deborah,; Mitchinson, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 8 figures

Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. Conceptualizing obesity as a biological condition, these experts insist that it needs to be “prevented” and “managed.” Obesity in Canada takes a broader, critical perspective of our supposed epidemic. Examining obesity in its cultural and historical context, the book’s contributors ask how we measure health and wellness, where our attitudes to obesity develop from, and what the consequences are of naming and targeting as “obese” those whose body weights do not match our expectations. A broad survey of the issues surrounding the obesity panic in Canada, it is the first collection of fat studies and critical obesity studies from a distinctly Canadian perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Obesity In Canada Critical Perspectives -- Introduction: Obesity In Canada -- Part 1 Critical Perspectives On Obesity Science -- 1. Hearing Noises And Noticing Silence: Towards A Critical Engagement With Canadian Body Weight Statistics -- 2. “Obesity” As Process: The Medicalization Of Fatness By Canadian Researchers, 1971–2010 -- 3. The Geneticization Of Aboriginal Diabetes And Obesity: Adding Another Scene To The Story Of The Thrifty Gene -- 4. Diabesity, Or The “Twin Epidemics”: Reflections On The Iatrogenic Consequences Of Stigmatizing Lifestyle To Reduce The Incidence Of Diabetes Mellitus In Canada -- 5. Spoon Fed: Learning About “Obesity” In Dietetics -- 6. Indigenous People’S Clinical Encounters With Obesity: A Conversation With Barry Lavallee -- Part 2 Who Is Responsible For Obesity? -- 7. Mother Blaming And Obesity: An Alternative Perspective -- 8. Obesity, Risk, And Responsibility: The Discursive Production Of The “Ultimate At-Risk Child” -- 9. Obesity Panic, Body Surveillance, And Pedagogy: Elementary Teachers’ Response To Obesity Messaging -- 10. Find Your Greatness: Responsibility, Policy, And The Problem Of Childhood Obesity -- Part 3 Representations Of And Responses To Obesity -- 11. From “Fu” To “Be Yourself”: Fat Activisms In Canada -- 12. Having Your Jiggs Dinner And Eating It Too: Newfoundland Obesity And The Affects Of Tradition -- 13. Screening The Un-Scene: Deconstructing The (Bio)Politics Of Story Telling In A Canadian Reality Makeover Weight Loss Series -- 14. Fat Authenticity And The Pursuit Of Hetero-Romantic Love In Vancouver: The Case Of Online Dating -- Part 4 Inconclusions -- 15. “Celebrating Unruly Experiences”: Queering Health At Every Size As A Response To The Politics Of Postponement -- 16. Revisioning Fat: From Enforcing Norms To Exploring Possibilities Unique To Different Bodies -- Contributors -- Index