This chapter explores the rhetorical and ethical structure of our public communications and
representations concerning food, eating, health, and obesity. Food messages in our culture …

Over the past decade intense concern has developed in the West about what has been
characterised as an obesity epidemic. This concern is producing a range of effects, including …

The notion of obesity as a pathological state within the individual remains the dominant
perspective in public health and biomedicine. However, there has been a growing call to re …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF FOOD ETHICS While the history of
philosophy has traditionally given scant attention to food and the ethics of eating, in the last few …

Feminist research and activism have made a distinctive contribution to social studies of
health and have also had a significant impact on public health policy. Gender is widely …

This chapter interrogates Val Plumwood's claims that ontological veganism is imperialist
towards Indigenous peoples and alienates us from the natural world. We resist such claims …

The foregoing, both appearing in early 2012, represent very different understandings about
the significance of being substantially overweight and possible responses. The first focuses …

Abstract Amid the contemporary Euro-Western 'obesity apparatus,'fat matters in complex,
entangled, and consequential modes that enact uneven oppressive consequences for …

This paper argues that common social narratives about unhealthy eaters can cause
significant damage to agency. I identify and analyze a narrative that combines a “control …

In a climate where the “obesity epidemic” is a consistent focus within discussions of public
health, the theory that the environment is one of the main drivers of the “obesity epidemic” is …