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  Title

  Weighing in : obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism

  Author

  Guthman, Julie.  

  Publisher:

  University of California Press,

  Pub date:

  c2011.

  Pages:

  xi, 227 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780520266247

  Item info:

  2 copies available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library and Aurora Campus.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    RA645 .O23 G88 2011	1	Book	Available, On shelf
    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    RA645 .O23 G88 2011	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780520266247 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0520266242 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  9780520266254 (pbk. : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0520266250 (pbk. : alk. paper)

  Personal Author:

  Guthman, Julie.

  Title:

  Weighing in : obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism / Julie Guthman.

  Publication info:

  Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

  Physical description:

  xi, 227 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (California studies in food and culture ; 32)

  Contents:

  What's the problem? -- How do we know obesity is a problem? -- Whose problem is obesity? -- Does your neighborhood make you fat? -- Does eating (too much) make you fat? -- Does farm policy make you fat? -- Will fresh, local, organic food make you thin? -- What's capitalism got to do with it? -- What's on the menu?

  Summary:

  Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. The author examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also focuses the lens of obesity on the broader food system to understand why we produce cheap, over-processed food, as well as why we eat it. She takes issue with the currently touted remedy to obesity, promoting food that is local, organic, and farm fresh. While such fare may be tastier and grown in more ecologically sustainable ways, this approach can also reinforce class and race inequalities and neglect other possible explanations for the rise in obesity, including environmental toxins. Arguing that ours is a political economy of bulimia, one that promotes consumption while also insisting upon thinness, she offers a complex analysis of our entire economic system.

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  TODD AURORA

  Subject term:

  Obesity--Social aspects.

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