Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias
Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias
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DOI：
10.1007/s11199-011-0022-5
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Rothblum, Esther D.
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作者：
Fikkan, Janna L.;Rothblum, Esther D.
尽管近年来关于基于体重的污名的研究和学术研究大幅增加，但肥胖女性经历的不成比例的偏见程度却得到了相当少的关注。本文回顾了北美女性在就业、教育环境、恋爱关系、医疗保健和心理健康治疗以及媒体形象等多个领域经历的基于体重的污名的文献。我们还探讨了与体重污名相关的性别和种族交集的研究。在许多环境中，无论男性是胖是瘦，胖女人的表现都比瘦女人差，也比男人差。体重偏差会对健康、生活质量和社会经济结果产生重大影响，因此女性会经历多种有害后果。由于这种性别差异，我们认为，女权主义学者需要对肥胖女性的生活经历给予同样多的关注，就像他们需要关注苗条女性经历的“对脂肪的恐惧”一样。
Although research and scholarship on weight-based stigma have increased substantially in recent years, the disproportionate degree of bias experienced by fat women has received considerably less attention. This paper reviews the literature on the weight-based stigma experienced by women in North America in multiple domains, including employment, education settings, romantic relationships, health care and mental health treatment, and portrayals in the media. We also explore the research examining the intersection of gender and ethnicity related to weight stigma. Across numerous settings, fat women fare worse than thinner women and worse than men, whether the men are fat or thin. Women experience multiple deleterious outcomes as a result of weight bias that have a significant impact on health, quality of life, and socioeconomic outcomes. Because of this gender disparity, we argue that feminist scholars need to devote as much attention to the lived experiences of fat women as they have to the "fear of fat" experienced by thin women.