Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media

This volume is premised on the idea that we can best understand the media’s
representations of obesity and eating disorders by conceptualizing them as closely
interlinked, rather than distinct, public health and social phenomena. It questions
the tendency to position the obese and the anorexic body as separate, polar
opposites – as overeating juxtaposed with self-starvation. Instead, this volume
approaches obesity and eating disorders as mutually-implicating conditions that
together draw attention to the material extremes of fat and emaciated bodies,
overeating and self-starvation, and fatty and lean foods.