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PublisherDemeter Press

ISBN-101772581747

ISBN-139781772581744

eBay Product ID (ePID)22050410620

Product Key Features

Number of Pages198 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHeavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Pediatrics, Parenting / Motherhood, Bariatrics

Publication Year2018

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Medical

AuthorJudy Verseghy

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-487460

Dewey Edition23

Reviews?Heavy Burdens takes up the important discussion of fat and motherhood by blending both scholarly and personal analyses. This collection looks both ?up? at mothers (from a child?s view) and ?down? from motherhood, complicating ideas about motherhood, responsibility, and individuality through the rocky terrain of weight stigma."?Dr. May Friedman, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Ryerson University

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.874/30877

Table Of ContentIntroductionBaby Weight: Pregnancy and Fatness?The elephant in the room?: Naming fat phobia in maternity care???????????????19?George Parker and Cat PauséBearing?????????????????????????????????????.33Emma DayOverfeeding the Floating Fetus and Future Citizen: The ?war on obesity? and the expansion of fetal rights??????????????????????????????????????.35?April HerndonEating for Two: the fear and threat of fatness in pregnancy?????????????????.45?Megan Davidson and Sarah LewinBeauty in the Eye of Eternity?????????????????????????????61?Sid Robitaille (Sitka)Goal Weights, Planned Parenthood, and Aging past my Prime???????????????...63?Emily R.M. Lind?(Don?t) let them eat cake: Experiences of Fat KidsI am not Small??????????????????????????????????...79?deborah schnitzerLove Always????????????????????????????????????????95bathbunnyConversations with our Mothers: exploring maternal blame and the generational effects of body management???????????????????????????????????97?Jen Rinaldi and Samantha WalshUntitled???????????????????????????????????...?109?RAESAU??????????????????????????????????????111?Natasha GalarragaDear Mom???????????????????????????????????...117?Samantha AbelHappiness Project and Close Bonds: a calorie-counting mother and her fat, feminist killjoy ?daughter????????????????????????????????????..137?Crystal Kotow?Coming to Term(s): Fat MotherhoodSky Woman, Mother???????????????????????????.????..149?Emma DayFrom Famine to Feast: Pregnancy and motherhood???????????????????..151?Liz NelsonSharing????????????????????????????????????..153?Emma DayCrazy, Squishy Love: How I learned to love my body through the eyes of my son???????155?Jodi ChristieFeeding???????????????????????????????????.?159?Emma DayMother to Daughter: From fat hatred to fat love in 100 years????????????????161?Jennifer LeeExoskeleton???????????????????????????????????.171?Sherezada KentSmiling?????????????????????????????????????181?Emma DayThe Fat of the Matter: Fat Activist Parenting in Fatphobic Times??????????????.183Passing it On??????????????????????????????????...187?Kimberly DarkAuthor Biographies????????????????????????????????.195

SynopsisHeavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around ?obesity? impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-course approach, the book begins with analyses of the ways in which fatphobia is enacted on pregnant (or even not-yet-pregnant) women, whose bodies immediately become viewed as objects warranting external control by not only medical professionals, but family members, and even passers-by. The story unfolds as adults recount childhood stories of growing up fat, or growing up in fear of being fat, and how their mothers? relationships with their own bodies and attempted weight-loss experiences shaped how food, exercise, and body management were approached in their homes in sometimes harmful ways. Finally, the book concludes with stories of women who have since become mothers, examining the ways in which having their own children altered their views on their own bodies and their perceptions of their mothers? actions, and working to find fat-friendly futures via their own parenting (or grand-parenting) techniques.This book contains the artwork, stories, and analyses of nearly 20 contributors, all of whom seek to change the ways in which fatness is perceived, experienced, and vilified. It is the editors? hope that these works will compel readers to reconsider their negative views on fatness and to retain softness toward every mother and child who are simply fighting to exist in the face of fatphobia., Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around "obesity" impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-course approach, the book begins with analyses of the ways in which fatphobia is enacted on pregnant (or even not-yet-pregnant) women, whose bodies immediately become viewed as objects warranting external control by not only medical professionals, but family members, and even passers-by. The story unfolds as adults recount childhood stories of growing up fat, or growing up in fear of being fat, and how their mothers' relationships with their own bodies and attempted weight-loss experiences shaped how food, exercise, and body management were approached in their homes in sometimes harmful ways. Finally, the book concludes with stories of women who have since become mothers, examining the ways in which having their own children altered their views on their own bodies and their perceptions of their mothers' actions, and working to find fat-friendly futures via their own parenting (or grand-parenting) techniques.

LC Classification NumberBF697.5.B63H43 2018