Framing Fat: Competing Constructions in Contemporary Culture

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177 INDEX The letters f and t appended to page numbers refer to figures and tables. Note locators are indicated by the page number, the letter n, and the note number. accomplishment, body as symbol of, 28–29, 47 Add Health (National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), 112 Adonis Complex. See lean muscular ideal for men advertisements: aesthetic frame, 17, 25–27, 29–30, 32–33, 56–57, 109–110; choice and responsibility frame, 58, 72, 73f, 77–82; as cultural artifacts, 16–17, 23–24, 122 aesthetic frame, 22–41, 118–121t, 122; as competing voice, 56–57, 86–87, 109–110 aesthetics of health, 57, 141 Afrocentric beauty ideals, 36–37 Allison, David, 60–61, 86 American Attitudes Towards Obesity survey, 129 American Beverage Association (ABA), 81–82 American Medical Association (AMA), 27 American Obesity Association (AOA), 85 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009), 139 Americans Against Food Taxes, 81–82 Andreyeva, Tatiana, 98, 108, 111–112 anorexia nervosa, 5, 40 anthropological takes on fat, 4–5, 111 antifat attitudes. See size discrimination antifat messages, 24–27, 32–33 Anti-Gym, 28, 32–33, 127, 145n4 appeals to principle. See reasoning devices: principles Armani Exchange, 30 artifacts, cultural, 16–17 assumptions, underlying, 6–7, 12, 28–29, 31–32, 47, 55, 96–97, 127–128 attack websites, 10 Bacon, Linda, 63, 107 Barbie and Ken, 27 bariatric surgeons, 6, 7, 23, 29, 42 bariatric surgery, 37 Barry, Colleen L., 129 Bartky, Sandra Lee, 13, 22–23 beauty frame. See aesthetic frame beauty ideals. See ideals, aesthetic beauty myths, 24–27 Benford, Robert D., 131 Benjamin, Regina, 64–65 Berman, Richard, 9, 10 Berman & Company, 10 Berscheid, Ellen, 111 Best, Joel, 3 Biernat, Monica, 113 Big Fat Lies (Gaesser), 63 Biggest Loser, The (reality TV program), 64 big government, 77–79, 80f, 81–82 biomedicalization, 2–3, 68–69, 87, 134–136 biopower, 44–45, 68, 133–134 black alternative aesthetic. See Afrocentric beauty ideals BMI (Body Mass Index), 42, 44, 45, 146n2; CCF’s rejection of redefinition of, 58– 60, 146n7 body compliance versus body diversity, 125–127 body projects. See identity project, body as Boero, Natalie, 45, 69, 134 Bordo, Susan, 28–29 Bosk, Charles, 3 178 Index Bourdieu, Pierre, 30 Brownell, Kelly D., 98, 108, 111, 137, 141–142 bulimia nervosa, 40 Burgard, Deb, 62, 63 Caloric Balance Equation. See Energy Balance Equation Campos, Paul, 107 capital, forms of, 30 capitalism, consumer. See consumer culture cartoons, 59, 61, 74–75, 77–78, 81, 85 catchphrases. See under framing devices causal claims, resonance of, 127–131 causal roots. See under reasoning devices CCF (Center for Consumer Freedom), 9–10, 20, 70–93, 118–121t; as competing voice, 33–34, 57–62, 110, 123; cultural artifacts of, 16 CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 42–69, 118–121t; as competing voice, 33–34, 87–88, 110 Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), 10, 78, 79 Centers for Obesity Research (CORE), 85, 86 central claims. See under reasoning devices childhood obesity, 45, 52, 53, 55, 64, 65, 74–75, 146n3 choice and responsibility frame, 70–93, 118– 121t, 123; as competing voice, 33–34, 57–62, 110, 123 citations, use of. See research (quotation) wars, framing wars as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), 10 claims makers, 2–4 Clarke, Adele E., 69, 134 Clooney, George, 58 Colditz, Graham, 62 Collins, Patricia Hill, 36, 100 Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW), 139 competing voices, 33–35, 56–65, 86–88, 109–110, 122, 123 competition between frames, 2–3, 82, 124 conflations:healthandbeauty,56–57;thinness andbeauty,26;thinnessandhealth,136 Conley, Dalton, 113 consequences. See under reasoning devices constructing social problems, 2–4 consumer culture, 23–24, 27, 31–32 contradictory claims, 1, 96–98, 129 “contradictory impulses,” 92 Corn Refiners Association (CRA), 75–76 counterhegemonic body aesthetics, 36–37, 67–68, 135 counterhegemonic food movements, 93 Crandall, Christian S., 111, 113 Crawford, Robert, 28, 47, 134 credibility of frames, 131–133 CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), 10 critical obesity studies. See fat studies Crosnoe, Robert, 112 cross-cultural perspectives on fat, 4–5, 111 CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest ), 10, 78, 79 cultural artifacts, 16–17 culturalproducers,7–13,16–17,116–117,118t cultural supporters, 7–12, 118t “culture of lack,” 27 Dairy Management and Domino’s, 85, 137 D’Arcy, Imogen, 22 D’Arcy, Susan, 22 data wars. See research (quotation) wars, framing wars as...