04442nam a22005775i 4500 978-1-349-96114-6 DE-He213 20251030112851.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240813s2024 xxk| s |||| 0|eng d 9781349961146 978-1-349-96114-6 10.1057/978-1-349-96114-6 doi HM636 JHB bicssc SOC026000 bisacsh JHB thema Jovanovski, Natalie. author. (orcid)0000-0002-4380-0652 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4380-0652 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82282 Diet Culture and Counterculture [electronic resource] : Self and Society in the Anti-Diet Movement / by Natalie Jovanovski. 1st ed. 2024. London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 244 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Diet Culture and Counterculture: An Introduction -- Theorising Diet Culture: Confronting the Structure Versus Agency Debate -- Challenging Diet Culture: The Strategies of Social Movements -- Tracing Diet Culture: Unpacking Power and Domination -- Embodying Diet Culture: Radical Self-Care and the Diet Habitus -- Communicating Diet Culture: Anti-Diet Talk and Relations of Resistance -- Care as Anti-Diet Practice: Unifying a Fragmented Movement -- Diet Counterculture and the Future: Concluding Thoughts. Natalie Jovanovski is Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences and Social Equity Research Centre (SERC) at RMIT University, Australia. She is also an Honorary Fellow in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne, Australia. As a health sociologist, Natalie’s research explores the sociocultural factors that shape people’s relationships with food, eating and their bodies, especially women. Her first book, Digesting Femininities: The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), won the TASA Raewyn Connell Prize in 2018. This book is the first of its kind to explore how women challenge the powerful sociocultural and gendered phenomenon of diet culture across the broad anti-diet movement and beyond. Showcasing the voices of over 150 everyday women, activists, and health professionals across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the author provides new insight into anti-diet practices while giving agency for women who remain main targets of diet culture. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus as a novel starting point to develop a concept of the diet habitus, the author explores the possibility of a fragmented but unified diet counterculture. Drawing on feminist perspectives from women’s and fat liberation movements, the author demonstrates that women’s anti-diet practices are grounded in a combination of self and society; one that has the power to significantly re-shape the broad landscape of food and eating for women. This international book appeals to scholars, students, activists and health professionals interested in the intersections of the sociology of the body, fat studies, sociology of food and nutrition, social movements, health sociology, and women's studies. . Human body Social aspects. 68458 Sociology. 57193 Nutrition. 68694 Food. 68806 Sex. 66477 Social medicine. 62456 Sociology of the Body. 68461 Sociology of Food and Nutrition. 68807 Gender Studies. 66478 Medical Sociology. 57827 Health, Medicine and Society. 69853 Sociology. 57193 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9781349961139 Printed edition: 9781349961153 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-96114-6 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 62429 62429