Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction and personal prologue -- Neoliberal society, neoliberal bodies? -- The fat body in neoliberal culture -- Healthy, acceptable, and moral bodies . . . and their opposites -- Feminist body studies, fatness, and feminist fat studies -- The fat body as the target of biopower -- Methodology and data -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- 2.Neoliberalism, governmentality, and the body -- From neoliberalism to neoliberal governmentality -- Governmentality and neoliberal governmentality -- Consumer culture and the body as a "project" -- The disembodied social analysis of the neoliberal economy -- The body as an intersection of fat, class, and gender -- Notes -- 3.The biopolitics of weight and the obesity epidemic -- The biopolitics of weight -- Biomedicine and normal body weight -- Body weight and health -- The "obesity epidemic discourse" . . . epidemic -- Moral panic and the metaphorical illness of obesity -- Notes;Note continued: 4.The economisation of health and the fat body -- Health and the public welfare state -- Neoliberal healthcare -- Health inequalities -- The obesity epidemic discourse as a form of neoliberal governmentality -- Deservingness, morals, costs and investment -- Notes -- 5.Healthism and individual responsibility -- The ubiquity of healthism and its moral implications -- Fatness as a self-inflicted problem -- Wellness and women: buying normative femininity? -- Notes -- 6.Money for your fat! Moral credit for disappearing fat -- The "Literacy in Fat" campaign -- Moralising prejudice in the campaign -- The commodification of fat -- Notes -- 7.Postfeminism, fatness, and female body norms -- From sexual objects to empowered agents? -- How to build a neoliberal girl -- Neoliberal surveillance and control -- Femininity for sale -- Free choice and the thin privilege -- 8.Conclusion -- The preferred body of neoliberalism -- Some final words.