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Kwan, Samantha.

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Contested meanings about body, health, and weight: Frame resonance, strategies of action, and the uses of culture.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contested meanings about body, health, and weight: Frame resonance, strategies of action, and the uses of culture./
Author:	Kwan, Samantha.
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Albert Bergesen; Louise Roth.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3263239
ISBN:	9780549015673

Contested meanings about body, health, and weight: Frame resonance, strategies of action, and the uses of culture.
Kwan, Samantha.

Contested meanings about body, health, and weight: Frame resonance, strategies of action, and the uses of culture. - 248 p.

Advisers: Albert Bergesen; Louise Roth.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2007.

There has been much talk in the public arena about the meanings of the overweight body. While feminist scholars have long theorized and studied the oppressive effects of hegemonic beauty norms, in recent years several groups such as the Centers for Disease Control, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (a non-profit fat acceptance organization), and the Center for Consumer Freedom (a non-profit organization representing the food industry), have stepped up claims-making about the fat body and what it represents. How are these competing cultural messages promulgated by these cultural producers? Do these messages resonate with individuals? Moreover, how meaningful are these cultural messages in shaping day to day lives?

ISBN: 9780549015673Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Contested meanings about body, health, and weight: Frame resonance, strategies of action, and the uses of culture.
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520 $a There has been much talk in the public arena about the meanings of the overweight body. While feminist scholars have long theorized and studied the oppressive effects of hegemonic beauty norms, in recent years several groups such as the Centers for Disease Control, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (a non-profit fat acceptance organization), and the Center for Consumer Freedom (a non-profit organization representing the food industry), have stepped up claims-making about the fat body and what it represents. How are these competing cultural messages promulgated by these cultural producers? Do these messages resonate with individuals? Moreover, how meaningful are these cultural messages in shaping day to day lives?
520 $a Using content/frame analysis, survey data (n=456), and in-depth qualitative interviews (n=42), my dissertation examines framing competitions and dynamics among four competing cultural frames about the overweight body (the health frame, beauty frame, market choice frame, and social justice frame). I also examine the relationship between these cultural frames and individual agents. Specifically, I look at how respondents use culture by accepting, redefining, and rejecting elements of various frames.
520 $a In the frame analysis, I document the "signature elements" of the health, social justice, and market choice frames and discuss each frame's social and cultural significance. Analysis of the health frame shows how overweight and obese respondents redefine and reject health messages and how their uses of culture affect their self-perceptions of healthiness and health motivation for weight loss. Analysis of the beauty frame confirms the prevalence of the desire for weight loss, despite critique or acceptance of the cultural ideal. Results also highlight the interconnection between the health and beauty frames. Because beauty provides status, weight loss motivation stems in part from the health frame but, at times, even more from the beauty frame. In my analysis of the beauty frame, I also explore and theorize women's body consciousness and their attempts at body management. Finally, analysis of the market choice frame indicates strong resonance of the food industry's perspective, particularly the claim that individuals (and not corporations) are responsible for their bodies. Respondents generally do not support government regulation of the industry. Analysis of the market choice frame also connects the food industry frame to a main tenet of the social justice frame, pointing to a significant and positive relationship between perspectives on responsibility and anti-fat views. In the dissertation, I elaborate on these findings about health, beauty, individual and corporate responsibility, and social justice; the relationship between culture and agents; policy implications; and directions for future research.
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