Obesity and food in working classes: An approach to the female body

dc.creatorLhuissier, Anne
dc.creatorRegnier, Faustine
dc.date2017-04-01T15:22:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T07:35:37Z
dc.descriptionObesity does not concern all social classes equally; the most exposed ones are women from the working classes (16% of obese women among employees), who also belong to groups where average corpulence (frame 1) is the highest and where attention to the body (desire to lose weight, weighing frequency, practice of a sport) is the lowest. Even so, they are not cut off from the dominant body standards. A survey on working-class obese women -ex manual workers- shows that attention to the body and weight increases with proximity to the middle classes and the working world, and decreases as these women’s situation becomes precarious, turning into a medical imperative.
dc.identifierOther:ISSN 1778-4379
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.160331
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/160331/files/iss05-3-4-8_eng.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/160331
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/590023
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/160331
dc.titleObesity and food in working classes: An approach to the female body
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