Disability and the anti‐obesity offensive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12313581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Aphramor (Coventry University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 897-909 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09687590903283530 |
| OpenAlex | W2082840640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper expands a discussion begun by a fat activist in the UK disability literature to argue that fatness is a disability issue. Some ways in which fat people are oppressed by the same ideological practices and values that oppress (other) disabled people are explored. Fatness has typically been excluded from consideration by disability scholars and in this lacuna an equivalence is drawn between attitudes to fatness and psychological distress within disability studies. In conclusion, it urges discussion on theoretical perspectives of disability that embrace fatness and sees this as a prerequisite to developing strategies that enhance both disability and fat rights
Disability studies · Distress · Economics · Ideology · Inclusion (mineral · Medical model of disability · Obesity · Offensive · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Sociology · Clinical Psychology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport · Law · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology · Endocrinology
Weight Science
Relational Food Geographies, Underwater
Fighting the “Bog Standard”
Femininity, Body Size, and (Mis)Fitting in Rock Climbing Culture
Social constructions of fatness
When fat meets disability in poverty porn
Disrupting normal
Getting in and going’
Parental response to a letter reporting child overweight measured as part of a routine national programme in England
Obesity, neoliberalism and epidemic psychology
Big Girls Having Fun
Media, ‘Fat Panic’ and Public Pedagogy
Extending the obesity debate, repudiating misrecognition
Dietary approaches to weight-loss, Health At Every Size® and beyond
Death and anorexia nervosa
Everyday Politics of Fat
Becoming Smaller
(Re)claiming our bodies using a Two-Eyed Seeing approach
Challenging stereotypes and legitimating fat
Disability Rights and Wrongs
Men and the War on Obesity
Size Acceptance and Intuitive Eating Improve Health for Obese, Female Chronic Dieters
Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments
Critical Bodies
The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory of Disability
Disparate But Disabled
Is A Weight-Centred Health Framework Salutogenic? Some Thoughts on Unhinging Certain Dietary Ideologies
Collateral Damage from Friendly Fire
What Have Madness and Psychiatric System Survivors Got to Do with Disability and Disability Studies
Can a Fat Woman Call Herself Disabled
Fighting discrimination through litigation in the UK
Impairment and Disability
Health Risks Associated With Weight Loss and Obesity Treatment Programs
Cultural Representation of Disabled People
Healthy Weight' at What Cost? 'Bulimia' and a Discourse of Weight Control
| Citations per year | 1.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |