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Journal Article
Obesity at the Crossroads: Feminist and Public Health Perspectives
2006
Overview
It is the conflicts about the correct approach to women's weight that seem particularly surprising and troubling. Lavishing attention on the cultural valuation of thinness and such eating disorders as bulimia and anorexia, women's studies tends to view fat as an aesthetic and moral issue and thus to slight accumulating data about the health consequences of the obesity epidemic and to ignore the socioeconomic inequities that place women at higher risk for obesity. Here, Yancey et al examine the findings of recent obesity research in such a way as to engage the attention of women's studies scholars and spur them to action.
