Raisborough, Jayne
Fat Bodies, Health and the Media
1. Introduction: Fat, the Media, and a Fat Sensibility
Jayne Raisborough
Part I. Dramatis Personae: Introducing Fat, Health and Mass Media
2. The Matter of Fat
Jayne Raisborough
3. Fat Gets Melodramatic: The Obesity Epidemic and the News
Jayne Raisborough
4. Fat Finds Lifestyle: Introducing Reality Television
Jayne Raisborough
Part II. Fat Hits the Small Screen
5. The Before: Fat Gets Ready for a Makeover
Jayne Raisborough
6. Sweat and Tears: Working at Redemption
Jayne Raisborough
7. Fat and on Benefits: The Obese Turn Abese
Jayne Raisborough
8. Conclusion: Fat Sensibility or Moral Panic?
Jayne Raisborough
Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Culture, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Media Sociology
- Author(s)
- Raisborough, Jayne
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 10 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137288875
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-28886-8