Spreading the Religion of Thinness from California to Calcutta: A Critical Feminist Postcolonial Analysis

Lelwica, Michelle Mary; Höglund, Emma; McNallie, Jenna

doi:10.2979/fsr.2009.25.1.19

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“…For example, the observation that the gender gap is largest in California is consistent with the notion that body image consciousness within California's population is high. 30 The effect of ongoing underuse of bariatric surgery in men could be partially responsible for the reported plateau in procedures since 2003. 3 Consequently, there is potential for further growth of the bariatric surgery market if males become a target population.…”

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Benefits of Bariatric Surgery Do Not Reach Obese Men

Fuchs

Broderick

Harnsberger

et al. 2015

Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques

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The unequal gender distribution in bariatric surgery patients is influenced by demographic and socioeconomic factors. This disparity is narrowed in patients who are older and have more comorbidities, whereas the disparity is widened for certain races and lower incomes. Given the equal distribution of obesity in the United States, the widespread gender gap in bariatric surgery may suggest an underuse in obese men.

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confidence: 98%

Benefits of Bariatric Surgery Do Not Reach Obese Men

Fuchs

Broderick

Harnsberger

et al. 2015

Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques

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“…Others like Michelle Lelwica (2009) have argued that the cultural appetite for thinness supports an entire matrix of other related privileges to do with age, race, able-bodiedness, class, sexuality and nation. She extends Bordo's critique to show how white women's "devotion" to the "secular religion" of thinness troubles the binary between the "religious" and "secular," 18 helping establish the white western feminine ideal as normative for all women.…”

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Fat, Syn, and Disordered Eating: The Dangers and Powers of Excess

Bacon

2015

Fat Studies

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This article draws on qualitative research inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how ancient Christian suspicions of appetite and pleasure resurface in this group's language of "Syn." Following ancient Christian representations of sin, members assume that Syn depicts disorder and that fat is a visible sign of a body which has fallen out of place. Syn, though, is ambiguous, utilizing ancient theological meanings to discipline fat while containing within it the power to resist the very borders which hold women's bodies and fat in place. Syn thus signals both the dangers and powers of disordered eating.

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“…Some of the papers interpret eating disorders as culture-bound syndromes, arising in postcolonial situations and in relation to new media (Daniels, 2009;Lelwica et al, 2009). Following the theoretical framework established by Hall and Jefferson (1976) and Hebdige (1979), pro-ana and pro-mia subcultures might be engaged in a series of rituals aimed at resisting the cultural hegemony represented by the biomedical establishment.…”

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Ten years of Ana: Lessons from a transdisciplinary body of literature on online pro-eating disorder websites

Casilli

Tubaro

Araya

2012

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This paper is an argumentative review of the scientific literature on online services advocating anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (‗pro-ana' and ‗pro-mia') of the last decade. The main question is whether these studies reproduce the traditional divide in the study of eating disorders, between clinical and social science perspectives, with limited mutual exchanges.The article identifies a body of literature of which it investigates contents, methods, and approaches; it also analyzes the network of citations among them. On this basis, it argues that the scientific literature touching on pro-ana websites can be regarded as a single transdisciplinary body of knowledge. What's more, it shows that the literature on computermediated sociabilities centred on eating disorders displays different structural characteristics with respect to the traditional, non-Web-related research on eating disorders. In the latter, the social sciences have counterpointed the development of a health-sciences mainstream; in the former, instead, they have played a major role in defining the field, while the health sciences have followed suit.

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Spreading the Religion of Thinness from California to Calcutta: A Critical Feminist Postcolonial Analysis

Cited by 15 publications

References 52 publications

Benefits of Bariatric Surgery Do Not Reach Obese Men

Benefits of Bariatric Surgery Do Not Reach Obese Men

Fat, Syn, and Disordered Eating: The Dangers and Powers of Excess

Ten years of Ana: Lessons from a transdisciplinary body of literature on online pro-eating disorder websites

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