Fat Activism and Body Positivity: Freedom from Dieting?

Morris, Amelia

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“…It may be that not enough items reflecting this concept were included in the original item pool. Alternatively, several theorists have argued that body positivity, which promotes more inclusive beauty standards for people of all sizes, is conceptually distinct from fat acceptance (Morris, 2019). Our findings provide preliminary evidence for this argument.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the personal level, fat acceptance involves rejecting one’s own antifat biases, treating fat individuals with respect, and challenging sizeism in everyday life. On the political level, fat acceptance activists may campaign for weight-related nondiscrimination policies; work to make public spaces more accessible to fat people; protest the medical establishment’s treatment of fat bodies; boycott the diet industry; and create subversive art that celebrates fat bodies (Cooper, 2010; Morris, 2019). Most activists have suggested that people of all sizes can be fat accepting; however, they have also argued that the movement should emphasize the perspectives of larger fat individuals (van Amsterdam, 2013).…”

Section: Defining Fat Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fat acceptance is also related to the concept of body positivity; however, activists tend to view fat acceptance as a distinct and more radical construct. Whereas body positivity promotes the celebration of bodies of all sizes, fat acceptance focuses on challenging the structural discrimination faced by fat people specifically (Morris, 2019).…”

Section: Defining Fat Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…They also point to research documenting the high failure rate and negative health impacts of dieting (Bacon & Aphramor, 2011). However, other advocates have resisted this line of reasoning, arguing that the question of how weight and health are related is irrelevant—fat people possess inherent dignity, whether fatness confers health risk or not (Morris, 2019). They also point out the systemic inequities that may make weight control difficult, particularly for marginalized populations, including poorer access to medical care, nutritious food, and leisure time (Calogero et al, 2019).…”

Section: Defining Fat Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Fat Acceptance Scale: Development and initial validation.

Kase¹,

Mohr²

2022

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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The fat acceptance movement arose to combat the widespread stigmatization of fatness and fat people through personal liberation and political activism. Support for the movement and its underlying ideology has grown rapidly over the past three decades; however, a self-report measure of fat acceptance with strong psychometric properties has not yet been developed. The current studies aimed to develop the Fat Acceptance Scale (FAS), a measure of fat-accepting beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that was designed to be appropriate for use with people of all sizes. In Study 1, exploratory factor analysis (n = 266) and confirmatory factor analysis (n = 267) supported a three-factor solution assessing fat activism, health beliefs related to weight, and interpersonal respect for fat individuals. In Study 2 (N = 291), FAS scores predicted reactions to fictitious fat women after controlling for an established measure of antifat attitudes. Data from a subsample of 47 participants indicated moderate-to-high stability of the FAS over 4 weeks. In Study 3 (N = 156), health service psychology doctoral students' FAS scores predicted their reactions to a fictional fat psychotherapy client after controlling for antifat attitudes. Taken together, results provided preliminary evidence for the validity and reliability of FAS scores and suggest that the FAS may be a valuable tool for researchers, clinicians, and advocates interested in fat acceptance. Public Significance StatementThe fat-acceptance movement arose to combat the significant discrimination that fat individuals encounter in a variety of contexts. This article describes the development of a new scale measuring fat-accepting beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors (the Fat-Acceptance scale; FAS). The results of this study suggest that the FAS may be a reliable and valid tool for researchers, clinicians, and advocates interested in fat acceptance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Defining Fat Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Defining Fat Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Defining Fat Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Fat Acceptance Scale: Development and initial validation.

Kase¹,

Mohr²

2022

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…by altering social meanings and materials) that enable sustained positive change. Such language may foster greater recognition of the social and cultural meanings of food, and create distance from harmful diet culture and ‘dieting’ efforts [ 59 ], which are inconsistent with healthy eating patterns. It also avoids blaming and shaming individuals, who are in fact acting in accordance with the socioeconomic and other circumstances that confront them.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planting seeds of change: reconceptualizing what people eat as eating practices and patterns

Olstad

Kirkpatrick

2021

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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Language focused on individual dietary behaviors, or alternatively, lifestyle choices or decisions, suggests that what people eat and drink is primarily a choice that comes down to free will. Referring to and intervening upon food consumption as though it were a freely chosen behavior has an inherently logical appeal due to its simplicity and easily defined targets of intervention. However, despite decades of behavioral interventions, population-level patterns of food consumption remain suboptimal. This debate paper interrogates the manner in which language frames how problems related to poor diet quality are understood and addressed within society. We argue that referring to food consumption as a behavior conveys the idea that it is primarily a freely chosen act that can be ameliorated through imploring and educating individuals to make better selections. Leveraging practice theory, we subsequently propose that using the alternative language of eating practices and patterns better conveys the socially situated nature of food consumption. This language may therefore point to novel avenues for intervention beyond educating and motivating individuals to eat more healthfully, to instead focus on creating supportive contexts that enable sustained positive dietary change. Clearly, shifting discourse will not on its own transform the science and practice of nutrition. Nevertheless, the seeds of change may lie in aligning our terminology, and thus, our framing, with desired solutions.

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Does Diet Start Tomorrow? A Discourse Analysis of Self-Deprecating Humor Against Diet Culture in Diet Starts Tomorrow

Chaerani

Junaidi

2019

Celtic

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The hegemonic diet culture has recently become ruled out due to its painful methods of losing weight and its bad side effect for health. However, it is hardly denied that many women still put their body weight as a big matter due to the perpetuated portrayal of slim female figures throughout visual media. This article contains a discourse analysis of the Instagram page Diet Starts Tomorrow (@dietstartstomorrow), a humor-branded page reflecting upon female’s daily life that tends to involve diet culture in it throughout textual jokes. Data obtained from numbers of humorous text contain self-criticism, rejection, and circumvention of so-called healthy lifestyle written and posted by mostly female speakers. Through Gramscian lens, it is explored that self deprecating humor articulates young women’s resistance towards the hegemonic diet culture. Self deprecation primarily serves as a comfort space for young women, boosts self-confidence, and creates mutual understanding between audience through unveiling their emotional vulnerability. The results of the study refer to the humorous self-deprecatory text as a critique towards strict diet methods and beauty standards, for example by not judging female who keep consuming junk food or large portions of food. The research suggests further examination on how language is utilized to empower fat movement within the society of both gender.

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Fat Activism and Body Positivity: Freedom from Dieting?

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

The Fat Acceptance Scale: Development and initial validation.

The Fat Acceptance Scale: Development and initial validation.

Planting seeds of change: reconceptualizing what people eat as eating practices and patterns

Does Diet Start Tomorrow? A Discourse Analysis of Self-Deprecating Humor Against Diet Culture in Diet Starts Tomorrow

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