Fat. Lapton D.

This is a book about why the fat body is subjected to severe condemnation and is considered pathological, why it is the subject of such an intense discussion rotating around how to reduce such a body in size to acceptable, from the point of view of society and medicine, proportions. It is dedicated to live experience of obese corporeality: what is it to be obese in a fat -bearing society. It also illuminates FET activism, the policy of obesity and related disputes and disagreements. The world -famous sociologist Deborah Lapton explores fat as an artifact: as a bodily substance and bodily shape, which are comprehended through the prism of complex and constantly changing systems of ideas, practices, emotions, material objects and interpersonal relations.