Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines

Parasecoli, Fabio

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“…This fits with an overarching approach that sees weight‐loss and body projects framed as moral, necessary practices in the United States today, where the individual takes responsibility for her‐ or himself and produces an aesthetic healthiness (e.g., Braziel and Lebesco ; Lupton , ; Petersen and Bunton ; Rothblum and Solovay ). With respect to men, however, the literature remains less dense and mostly focuses on exercise and weight lifting behaviors (e.g., Atkinson ; Monaghan ; Parasecoli ). We still know very little about the ways in which men talk about their bodies and the eating habits that explicitly aim to aid in losing weight.…”

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Moral Biocitizenship: Discursively Managing Food and the Body after Bariatric Surgery

SturtzSreetharan

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Wutich

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J Linguistic Anthropol

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In the U.S. large bodies are associated with disorder and lack of control. Reclaiming control can take various forms. Drawing on interviews with eight men who have undergone bariatric surgery, we analyze the specific ways in which they discursively retake control of food, their eating habits, and ultimately their bodies. They accomplish this in two ways: 1) by both (re)categorizing food and transforming the way they consume food, the men linguistically locate their bodies within a sphere of moral biocitzenship; 2) through indexicality and speaking as experience, these men describe themselves as exerting appropriate control over their bodies and food on their own terms.

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Section: Why Men? Why Bariatric Surgery?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral Biocitizenship: Discursively Managing Food and the Body after Bariatric Surgery

SturtzSreetharan

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Wutich

et al. 2018

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…En este estudio se encontró que, en los varones, lo que prima son cánones estéticos que privilegian el vigor y la fuerza corporal, fundamentalmente focalizada en un torso musculoso y atlético, rasgos ya documentados en la literatura (Bieger, 2012;Grogan, 2010;Parasecolli, 2013;Raich, 2000). Las mujeres, por su parte, valoraron la tonicidad de su figura, y el desarrollo muscular sólo hasta cierto nivel, sin que éste fuera pro-éstas se encuentran mediadas por la "marca" impuesta al cuerpo.…”

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“…En las sociedades occidentalizadas, la presión social por alcanzar el IDC ha migrado hacia la valoración de la delgadez en las mujeres (Mobley, 2014;Rauscher, Kauer y Wilson, 2013;Stice, 1994;Turner, 2008) y la musculatura en los varones (Mancilla, Vázquez, Mancilla, Amaya y Alvarez, 2012;Parasecolli, 2013).…”

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Conceptions and values of the body in young adults of Northwestern Mexico / Concepciones y valoraciones del cuerpo en jóvenes del noroeste de México

Gutiérrez

Torres

2018

Rev. Mex. Trast. Alim.

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Currently thinness is the ideal body (IB) while in western societies obesity has reached levels never seen before. This situation has influenced how men and women perceive their bodies. The aim of this paper was to describe conceptions and values of the IB as well as the perception and acceptance of the body in university students from the northwestern Mexico, a sociocultural context where obesity prevails. From a socio-anthropological approach, we worked with 308 university students among 18 and 24 years old (202 women and 106 men). The construct of IB matches with the socially accepted discourse based on aesthetic and health values. In general, participants expressed moderated body dissatisfaction and rejected obesity; the IB for women was slim, firm and curved while for men was muscled. Therefore, a gap was identified between what women and men want and perceive of their body image and self-acceptance, with clear differences by sex. Keywords: Corporality; Ideal body; Body image; Sociocultural influences; Stigmatization of obesity. ResumenMientras que la delgadez actualmente constituye el ideal corporal (IDC) preponderante en las sociedades occidentales, la obesidad prevalece con niveles nunca antes vistos. Esto ha influido en cómo hombres y mujeres se perciben y viven su cuerpo. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir las concepciones y valoraciones del IDC y la percepción y aceptación del propio cuerpo en jóvenes universitarios del noroeste de México, un contexto sociocultural en el que prevalece la obesidad. A partir de una perspectiva socio-antropológica, se trabajó con 308 jóvenes universitarios, de entre 18 y 24 años de edad (202 mujeres y 106 hombres). La construcción del IDC en los jóvenes concuerda con el discurso aceptado y difundido socialmente, basado en valoraciones estéticas y de salud.

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“…Vários estudos efetuados sobre os hábitos alimentares demonstram o fenómeno da moralização da alimentação (Parasecoli 2005). O que se observa neste estudo de caso, por sua vez, é uma politização da alimentação, mobilizando-a para os confrontos de classe que ocorrem no local de trabalho.…”

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Não comas onde trabalhas: estudo de caso sobre o ritual alimentar das comunidades de trabalho dos SMAS-Sintra

Gomes¹

2017

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Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines

Cited by 89 publications

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Moral Biocitizenship: Discursively Managing Food and the Body after Bariatric Surgery

Moral Biocitizenship: Discursively Managing Food and the Body after Bariatric Surgery

Conceptions and values of the body in young adults of Northwestern Mexico / Concepciones y valoraciones del cuerpo en jóvenes del noroeste de México

Não comas onde trabalhas: estudo de caso sobre o ritual alimentar das comunidades de trabalho dos SMAS-Sintra

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