Teaching Critical Perspectives on Body Weight: The Obesity "Epidemic" and Pro-Ana Movement in Classroom Discussions

Autor/in	Hutson, David J.
Titel	Teaching Critical Perspectives on Body Weight: The Obesity "Epidemic" and Pro-Ana Movement in Classroom Discussions
Quelle	In: Teaching Sociology, 45 (2017) 1, S.41-53 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0092-055X
DOI	10.1177/0092055X16664396
Schlagwörter	Sociology; Body Weight; Social Discrimination; Obesity; Teaching Methods; Consciousness Raising; Physical Health; Social Bias; Social Attitudes; Physical Fitness; Photography; Eating Disorders; Higher Education; Secondary Education; Self Concept + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziologie; Körpergewicht; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Adipositas; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bewusstseinsbildung; Gesundheitszustand; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Leistungsfähigkeit; Fotografie; Appetite disorder; Essstörung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Sekundarbereich; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	While most sociology students are well prepared to think critically about inequalities involving race, gender, social class, and sexuality, the topics of body weight and health present some challenges for classroom discussion. Primarily, this is due to the body's status in contemporary society as simultaneously malleable (able to be changed) and intractable (an indicator of moral worth). Such associations lead to cases of size discrimination--what is often called "sizeism"--with impacts similar to what is experienced around race and gender discrimination. To challenge students' taken-for-granted assumptions regarding weight and health, I detail two classroom techniques involving deconstructing the obesity "epidemic" and comparing the pro-ana community to bodybuilders for their similar use of extreme behaviors to achieve ideal bodies. In this way, students learn to critically assess something that has held a stigmatized position (fatness) as well as something that has held a valued position (thinness). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01