Neoliberal bodies and the gendered fat body / Hannele Harjunen.

• Chapter 1: Introduction and personal prologue; Neoliberal society, neoliberal bodies?; The fat body in neoliberal culture; Healthy, acceptable, and moral bodies ... and their opposites; Feminist body studies, fatness, and feminist fat studies; The fat body as the target of biopower; Methodology and data; Outline of the book; Notes; Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, governmentality, and the body; From neoliberalism to neoliberal governmentality; Governmentality and neoliberal governmentality; Consumer culture and the body as a "project"; The disembodied social analysis of the neoliberal economy; The body as an intersection of fat, class, and gender; Notes; Chapter 3: The biopolitics of weight and the obesity epidemic; The biopolitics of weight; Biomedicine and normal body weight; Body weight and health; The "obesity epidemic discourse" ... epidemic; Moral panic and the metaphorical illness of obesity; Notes; Chapter 4: The economisation of health and the fat body. Health and the public welfare state; Neoliberal healthcare; Health inequalities; The obesity epidemic discourse as a form of neoliberal governmentality; Deservingness, morals, costs and investment; Notes; Chapter 5: Healthism and individual responsibility; The ubiquity of healthism and its moral implications; Fatness as a self-inflicted problem; Wellness and women: buying normative femininity?; Notes; Chapter 6: Money for your fat! Moral credit for disappearing fat; The "Literacy in Fat" campaign; Moralising prejudice in the campaign; The commodification of fat; Notes. Chapter 7: Postfeminism, fatness, and female body normsFrom sexual objects to empowered agents?; How to build a neoliberal girl; Neoliberal surveillance and control; Femininity for sale; Free choice and the thin privilege; Chapter 8: Conclusion; The preferred body of neoliberalism; Some final words; References; Index.

Ämnesord

Hälsovård  (sao)

Feministisk teori  (sao)

Människokroppen  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Nyliberalism  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Övervikt  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Public health  (LCSH)

Feminist theory  (LCSH)

Human body  -- Social aspects (LCSH)

Neoliberalism  -- Social aspects (LCSH)

Obesity  -- Social aspects (LCSH)

Obesity in women  -- Social aspects (LCSH)

Nyliberalism  (kao)

Hälsa  (kao)

Neoliberalism  (kao//eng)

Health  (kao//eng)

Kropp  -- vikten (kao)

Feministisk teori  -- genus (kao)

Body  -- body weight (kao//eng)

Feminist theory  -- gender (kao//eng)

Medical care  (LCSH)

Public health  (LCSH)

Feminist theory  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HM636 (LCC)

305.4201 (DDC)

Ohja (kssb/8 (machine generated))