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| Author | Lee F. Monaghan |
| Abstract | Medicalized concerns about an “obesity epidemic” and the need to treat the body as a modifiable “project” are well rehearsed. Such preoccupations have also been amplified recently, following the outbreak of COVID-19 and calls for responsible risk management and pandemic preparedness. Yet, there is fallout from the ongoing war on obesity. Whilst women and girls are disproportionately impacted (e.g., in terms of stigma and body dissatisfaction), men’s and boys’ bodies and health (behaviors) have also been rendered “problematic.” This chapter draws from critical weight/fat studies and other literature (e.g., medical sociology, critical studies on men) when reinterpreting male bodies and health in crisis times. Rather than endorsing an individualizing, pathologizing, depoliticizing “problem frame” wherein the majority of male bodies are deemed to be deficient (lazy, greedy, ill, risky, irresponsible), this chapter underscores the significance of social structures and processes—the fundamental causes of health inequalities, which exceed fleshy bodies whilst also impacting upon them. |
| Tags / Keywords | body project, fat, health, inequalities, male bodies, obesity, weight |
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