Series: Innovative Ethnographies

Winner of the Reader Views Literary Award, Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, Schooled on Fat explores how body image, social status, fat stigma and teasing, food consumption behaviours, and exercise practices intersect in the daily lives of adolescent girls and boys. Based on nine months of fieldwork at a high school...

Schooled on Fat, winner of the Reader Views Literary Award in Societal Issues and the Reviewers Choice Best Non-fiction Book of the Year, Specialty Awards, delves into the intricate connections between body image, social status, fat stigma, teasing, food consumption behaviours, and exercise practices as experienced by adolescent girls and boys. Based on nine months of fieldwork at a high...