Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self‐blame.
Norms valorizing not‐fat bodies appear to have spread around the world, combined with a globalizing belief that thinness is the result of individual management of self and hard work. We examine themes of blame and felt responsibility for weight and "fat" in four distinct geographic and cultural loca...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 5 - 27 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2022
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