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  • Fat in Four Cultures

    A Global Ethnography of Weight

    by Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, Amber Wutich ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Traits that signal belonging dictate our daily routines, including how we eat, move, and connect to others. In recent years, "fat" has emerged as a shared anchor in defining who belongs and is valued versus who does not and is not. The stigma surrounding weight transcends many social, cultural, political, and economic divides. The concern over body image shapes not only how we see ourselves, but ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Extreme Weight Loss

    Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery

    by Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich ...
    A study that explores patients’ perspectives on a life-altering surgeryBariatric surgery rates around the world have increased exponentially over the past decade. In Extreme Weight Loss, anthropologists Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich provide us with an inside look at how patients experience this medical procedure, as well as its far-reaching and complex personal implications ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Foundations of Biosocial Health

    Stigma and Illness Interactions

    by Bayla Ostrach, Nicholas Emard, Theodore Gideonse, Seung Yong Han, Ruthanne Marcus, Gerald McKinley, Mary A. Ott, Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer0, Kara Wools-Kaloustian1, Amber Wutich2, Shir Lerman Ginzburg4, Harrison M.K. Maithya5, Merrill Singer7 ...
    The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples of stigma-driven syndemics to demonstrate both the nature of disease interactions and how stigma ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Applied Anthropology of Obesity

    Prevention, Intervention, and Identity

    by Alexandra G. Lancey, Chad T. Morris, Jose B. Rosales Chavez, Zuhra Malik, Elizabeth Serieux, Alejandro Tecum, Amy Borovoy, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Stacy Sobell0, Amber Wutich1, Lillie Dao2, Merrill Eisenberg3, Constanza Carney4, Amanda Wolfe5, Deborah Williams6, Sarah Womack7, Margaret Everett8, Moya L. Alfonso9, Stevenson Kuartei0, Alexandra Brewis1, Sean Bruna2, Emily Bissett3, John S. Luque4, Sara Arias-Steele5, Charles H. Klein6, Sarah Trainer7, Colleen O’Brien Cherry8 ...
    The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies affecting production, distribution, and consumption of food locally and globally. The Applied ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

    by Aubrey Gordon ...
    From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Anti-Diet

    Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

    by Christy Harrison ...
    Reclaim your time, money, health, and happiness from our toxic diet culture with groundbreaking strategies from a registered dietitian, journalist, and host of the Food Psych podcast.68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • "You Just Need to Lose Weight"

    And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

    by Aubrey Gordon ...
    Series Book 13 - Myths Made in America
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLER**“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh PodcastThe co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice**The pushback that shows ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Secrets From the Eating Lab

    The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again

    by Traci Mann ...
    A provocative expose of the dieting industry from one of the nation's leading researchers in self-control and the psychology of weight loss that offers proven strategies for sustainable weight loss.From her office in the University of Minnesota's Health and Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fat Talk

    Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

    by Virginia Sole-Smith ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Book Riot best book of 2023A Science Friday best book of 2023An Audible best well-being audiobook of 2023By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do?Kids learn, as we’ve all learned, that thinness is a surv... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Body of Truth

    How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do about It

    by Harriet Brown ...
    "A must-read for anyone ready to start shaking this fat = bad, thin = good obsession. Brown's book can help you love your body now." — BustleFor more than three decades, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. As a science journalist, Harriet Brown has explored this collective longing and fixation from an objective perspective; as a mother, wife, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cure for Everything

    Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness

    by Timothy Caulfield ...
    A researcher boldly wades through commercialized health and fitness fads to bust pervasive myths—and reveal the true science—behind what it means to live a healthy life.In this era of health-science research, rarely a day goes by without a public pronouncement of some exciting health-enhancing discovery: a new diet, a new fitness routine, a new drug or alternative therapy, the miracles achieved by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • What's Wrong with Fat?

    by Abigail C. Saguy ...
    The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic ... Read more

    $22.79 USD