{"id":1123,"date":"2012-01-27T00:14:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T05:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2012-03-08T21:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T02:15:15","slug":"fat-shaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/01\/27\/fat-shaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat-Shaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9382228@N08\/4839103389\/\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by HumongoNationphotogallery on flickr.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4154\/4839103389_45247f9899_m.jpg\" alt=\"Paula Deen Enterprises\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/01\/24\/new-obesity-prevention-campaign-rife-with-fat-shaming\/\">recent post on Sociological Images about fat-shaming<\/a>\u00a0got me thinking about Paula Deen, the celebrity chef known for her Southern (and high-fat) cooking, whose recent disclosure of a diagnosis of Type II diabetes is causing much <a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/anthony-bourdain-slams-paula-deen-diabetes-drug-partnership-155114566--abc-news.html\">controversy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The topic of fat-shaming is great for use in the classroom, because it&#8217;s most likely a new concept for most students, and can start a great conversation about stigma, the social dynamics of the obesity epidemic, and civil rights. To get the discussion going, you could show these &#8220;interviews&#8221; from The Colbert Report with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/academics\/programs\/american-studies\/Faculty\/\">Amy E. Farrell<\/a>, a professor of American Studies and Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies at Dickinson College, about fat-shaming and her book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\/books\/book-details.aspx?bookId=1613\">Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture<\/a>. <\/em>Despite the craziness that is\u00a0Stephen Colbert, I think Professor Farrell gets the point across well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent post on Sociological Images about fat-shaming\u00a0got me thinking about Paula Deen, the celebrity chef known for her Southern (and high-fat) cooking, whose recent disclosure of a diagnosis of Type II diabetes is causing much controversy. The topic of fat-shaming is great for use in the classroom, because it&#8217;s most likely a new concept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[5007],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}