‘Do I Still Belong Here?’ The Body's Boundary Work in the Israeli Fat Acceptance Movement

Maor, Maya

doi:10.1080/14742837.2012.716251

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“…Sociologically, communities serve as currents that (de)stigmatize by reinforcing shared understandings, norms, and prescriptions. Social groups that intend to offer succor may actually act as sources of stigma (e.g., some Israeli Fat Acceptance Movement members felt marginalized when gatekeepers deemed them not “fat enough”; Maor 2013). As potentially the most intimate social group, the family can serve as an especially painful source of stigma if members ridicule each other's traits, gender role expressions, or lifestyles.…”

Section: The Stigma Turbinementioning

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The Stigma Turbine: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Marketplace Stigma

Mirabito

Otnes

Crosby

et al. 2016

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/57128/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. Stigmas, or discredited personal attributes, emanate from social perceptions of physical characteristics, aspects of character, and "tribal" associations (e.g., race; Goffman 1963). Extant research has emphasized the perspective of the stigma target, with some scholars exploring how social institutions shape stigma. Yet the ways stakeholders within the sociocommercial sphere create, perpetuate, or resist stigma remain overlooked. The authors introduce and define marketplace stigma as the labeling, stereotyping, and devaluation by and of commercial stakeholders (consumers, companies and their employees, stockholders, and institutions) and their offerings (products, services, and experiences). The authors offer the Stigma Turbine as a unifying conceptual framework that locates marketplace stigma within the broader sociocultural context and illuminates its relationship to forces that exacerbate or blunt stigma. In unpacking the Stigma Turbine, the authors reveal the critical role that market stakeholders can play in (de)stigmatization, explore implications for marketing practice and public policy, and offer a research agenda to further understanding of marketplace stigma and stakeholder welfare.

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Section: The Stigma Turbinementioning

confidence: 99%

The Stigma Turbine: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Marketplace Stigma

Mirabito

Otnes

Crosby

et al. 2016

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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“…Israeli culture, on other hand, is both an industrialized Western culture and a traditional culture [35]. In traditional Jewish culture, that represents the majority of the Israeli inhabitants, there is relatively less emphasis on physical attractiveness and a strong association between food and social familial affection [36], perceived as an important source of support [37].…”

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Body Image, Emotional Eating and Psychological Distress among Bariatric Surgery Candidates in Israel and the United States

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Background: The present study aimed to examine the relations between body image dissatisfaction (BID) and psychological distress variables among bariatric surgery candidates from two distinct cultures in Israel and in the United States. Methods: A sample of consecutive pre-surgical bariatric candidates was recruited from a Bariatric Center in Israel (N = 114) and a Bariatric Center in the Unites States (N = 81). Body image dissatisfaction (BID-BSQ8), suicidal ideation (SBQ-R), depressive symptoms (PHQ-9), anxious symptoms (PHQ-7), and emotional eating behaviors (EES), were measured. Mediation models were assessed using path analysis. Results: BID was positively correlated with suicidality, depression, and anxiety in both samples. The relations between BID depression and anxiety were mediated by emotional eating in both cultures. However, the relation between BID and suicidality that was mediated by emotional eating in the Israeli sample, was reflected in a direct link between BID and suicidality in the US sample. Conclusion: Our findings confirm the adverse effect of BID on psychological distress among surgery candidates in both cultures, emphasizing the intercultural similarities related to emotional eating behavior. Physicians and other health professionals are encouraged to be more attentive to this specific behavior.

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“…As it downplays other grounds of discrimination, it highlights the discrimination that comes specifically from being fat, thereby demonstrating the spread and impact of the movement (see also Cooper, 2016). However, as Maor (2013) points out, there lies a danger in reducing people to just being "fat". As the quote above suggests, too narrow of a focus risks excluding allies, as well as fat people who are not white or middle class, thus affecting the movement's ability to attract people who engage in the struggle.…”

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“Not quite the struggle of normatives”: Belonging and entitlement in Swedish “body activism”

2022

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A “body activism” movement, with roots in fat activism and body positivity, has developed in Sweden during the last decade. As new forms of activism emerge, boundaries and approaches are being negotiated. Who is the movement for? Who can engage in it, and how? Through semi-structured interviews, we seek to understand how young Swedes who follow and engage in “body activism” on social media experience and reflect on the activism, belonging and entitlement, and their own participation. The informants discussed activism in terms of inclusiveness and political potential, where the most accessible activism is also the one ascribed with the least political potential. Entitlement is linked to collective identity, where an active participation requires belonging to the marginalised group. This article highlights the significance of boundary work in movements, where too narrowly drawn boundaries can lead to decreased participation and result in an unexploited potential for social change.

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‘Do I Still Belong Here?’ The Body's Boundary Work in the Israeli Fat Acceptance Movement

Cited by 20 publications

References 22 publications

The Stigma Turbine: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Marketplace Stigma

The Stigma Turbine: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Marketplace Stigma

Body Image, Emotional Eating and Psychological Distress among Bariatric Surgery Candidates in Israel and the United States

“Not quite the struggle of normatives”: Belonging and entitlement in Swedish “body activism”

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