" Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě

Title:

" Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě
‘ Fat’ Body in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia: Compulsory Ability and Gender in Expert Discourse

Creator:

Appeltová, Michaela

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:23789f8a-92a6-44bc-a1f1-9eeb4bf7797e
uuid:23789f8a-92a6-44bc-a1f1-9eeb4bf7797e
doi:10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.252

Subject:

obesity, gendered body, embodiment, dis/ability, physical fitness, expert discourse, and late socialism

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

This article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country’s late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked together to produce a socialist subject. On the first level, it analyses the expert anti-obesity discourse as an example of the expertisation of public discourse in socialist Czechoslovakia. Second, it shows the construction of obesity in contrast to bodily ability, and the stigmatisation of the ‘fat’ body. On the last level, the article focuses on the gendered aspects of the discourse and demonstrates the ways in which the anti-obesity campaign supported the heteronormative framework of late socialism. By examining expert and media discourses, the article argues that the campaign against obesity served as a means to construct a proper socialist body and induce a moral panic about the state of socialism.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum: bulletin týmu Gender v sociologii | 2016 Volume:17 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

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