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Fat politics
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ISBN: 1280564482 9786610564484 0195347021 142374666X 9780195347029 9781423746669 9781280564482 9780195169362 0195169360 0199839115 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Presenting the story of America's obesity epidemic, this book examines the political forces that shape America's obesity 'epidemic'. It argues that the concern with obesity is based less in science and more in the financial interests of the health care system. It concludes that the obesity epidemic is symptomatic of some larger contradictions.

Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender
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ISBN: 0203724461 1299054749 1135776288 9781135776282 9780203724460 9781299054745 9780203943809 0203943805 9781135916534 1135916535 9781135916480 1135916489 9781135916527 1135916527 9781135776428 1135776423 9781135776350 1135776350 041595536X 9780415955362 0415955378 9780415955379 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoboken Taylor and Francis

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Using arresting case studies of how ordinary people understand the concepts of race, class, and gender, Celine-Marie Pascale shows that the peculiarity of commonsense is that it imposes obviousness-that which we cannot fail to recognize. As a result, how we negotiate the challenges of inequality in the twenty-first century may depend less on what people consciously think about ""difference"" and more on what we inadvertently assume. Through an analysis of commonsense knowledge, Pascale expertly provides new insights into familiar topics. In addition, by analyzing local practices in the cont

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