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This study presents each of the various ways in which fat is understood in America today, examining the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we have come to understand the issue in these terms, despite considerable scientific uncertainty and debate. The book shows how debates over the relationship between body size and health risk take place within a larger, though often invisible, contest over whether we should understand fatness as obesity at all. Moreover, it reveals that public discussions of the 'obesity crisis' do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses.

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"While people used to conceal the fact that they were gay or lesbian to protect themselves from stigma and discrimination, it is now commonplace for people to "come out" and encourage others to do so as well. Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are systematically examines how coming out has moved beyond gay and lesbian rights groups and how different groups wrestle with the politics of coming out in their efforts to resist stigma and enact social change. It shows how different experiences and disparate risks of disclosure shape these groups' collective strategies. Through scores of interviews with LGBTQ+ people, undocumented immigrant youth, fat acceptance activists, Mormon fundamentalist polygamists, and sexual harassment lawyers and activists in the era of the #MeToo movement, Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are explains why so many different groups gravitate toward the term "coming out." By focusing on the personal and political resonance of coming out, it provides a novel way to understand how identity politics work in America today." --

Coming out (Sexual orientation) - United States --- Social movements - United States - 21st century --- Self-disclosure --- Sexual minorities - United States - Social conditions --- Fat-acceptance movement - United States --- Obesity - Social aspects - United States --- Sexual harassment - United States --- Illegal aliens - United States - Social conditions --- Immigrants - United States - Social conditions --- Polygamy - United States --- Mormon families - United States --- Coming out (Sexual orientation) --- Social movements --- Self-disclosure. --- Sexual minorities --- Fat-acceptance movement --- Obesity --- Sexual harassment --- Illegal immigration --- Noncitizens --- Polygamy --- Mormon families --- Fat-acceptance movement. --- Immigrants --- Mormon families. --- Polygamy. --- Sexual harassment. --- Social movements. --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- 2000-2099 --- United States. --- Latter Day Saint families --- Illegal aliens --- Latter Day Saint families.