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- Title
Alterações na identidade social do obeso: do estigma ao fat pride.
- Authors
den dos Santos Neves, Al; de Oliveira Mendonça, André Luís
- Abstract
The phenomenon of nutritional transition brought as major consequence high prevalence of overweight / obesity in the world population. Beyond the reflections on health, obesity brings important social changes to those who suffer of this condition. Despite the growing epidemic of obesity, we can see the emergence of a lipophobic model of society, that puts on obese a stigma by association of obesity with a number of negative moral values. The arise of the fat pride movement features a reaction of the stigma of obesity, and the medicalization of obesity points to bariatric surgery as medical technology able to change the condition of the obese. This paper aims to justify the need to understand the changes in the social identity of the obese from studies of authors who address obesity under the framework of the Public Health. The overall objective is to understand the transformations of the social identity of the obese, and specific objectives: examine obesity as a social stigma, and briefly describe the medicalization of obesity and the phenomena involved in the emergence of fat pride. The emergence of this movement in Brazil differs from the original American movement, based on the media appeal, and tends to create a commercial movement.
- Subjects
OVERWEIGHT persons; GROUP identity; NUTRITION research; SOCIAL change; OBESITY
- Publication
Demetra: Food, Nutrition & Health / Alimentação, Nutrição & Saúde, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 3, p619
- ISSN
2238-913X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/demetra.2014.9461