A brand new course at Princeton University invites students to learn about society’s stigmatization of the “fat body” and to consider political and industry-related reasons over medical reasons for being concerned about the “alleged” obesity epidemic.
Titled FAT: The F-Word and the Public Body, the course will be taught by dance professor Judith Hamera, who will lead students in examining how “the fat body operates at the conjuncture of political economy, beauty standards, and health.”
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