Karen Throsby

Gebundenes Buch

Sugar rush

Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness

Beschreibung

Sugar rush argues that despite its revolutionary claims, the contemporary attack on sugar represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

Autor

Karen Throsby has been researching issues of gender, technology, bodies and health for over 20 years, including work on reproductive technologies, weight loss surgery and endurance sport. She is the author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Identity and Embodiment (2016) and When IVF Fails: Feminist, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (2004). She is currently Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781526151544
• ISBN-10: 1526151545
• Artikelnr.: 65829664