⚣ [PDF] ✅ Watching Our Weights By Melissa Zimdars ✰ – Bluevapours.co.uk Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight loss and health medicalization and disease and body positivity and fat accept Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight loss and health medicalization and disease and body positivity and fat acceptance While television—especially reality television—is typically understood to promote individual Watching Our eBook ð self discipline and expert interventions as necessary for transforming fat bodies into thin bodies fat representations and narratives on television also create space for alternative as well as resistant discourses of the body Melissa Zimdars thus examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favor of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body.

Melissa Zimdars is a communication and media professor at Merrimack College.

Melissa Zimdars