Sin or Slim?: Christian morality and the politics of personal choice in a secular commercial weight loss setting

Is fat a sin? Popular ‘knowledge' about obesity which frames fat as an avoidable behavioural condition would certainly suggest it can be blamed on the fat person. Discourses of health reproduced within public policy and media reporting assist in the pathologization of fat bodies, insisting that...

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Published in:Fieldwork in religion
Main Author: Bacon, Hannah 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2013]
In: Fieldwork in religion
Further subjects:B Syn / sin
B Choice
B Morality
B fat
B weight loss
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