Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Panic, Beach Volleyball, Susie Orbach

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

Normative fitness: the way you ought to be because of a pull, something you ought to want. Anyone who doesn"t fit the norm has a diseased" body. Obesity is a disease, fat bodies are an epidemic and pose an. Fat people should attempt to lose weight to have an appropriate economic burden. Challenges to the orthodox view that is against obese people now. Not a problem that resides in the individual, but the environment. Our bodies are designed for fat-famine, but we constantly feast. Alternative: weight loss industry is making money. Fat as a discrimination and feminist issue. Obesity doesn"t meet the usual definition of disease, is there. Average american weighs 8-12 pounds more than people 20. Spreading an idea vs. spreading weight really an epidemic? years ago. Imaginary threat but pressing feeling that something has to be done. We see fat people as less than human, how we view ugly people.