The deviant body : lived experiences of fat Singaporeans

• Main Author: Heidi Mohamed Jamal
• Other Authors: Xiao Hong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73721
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, there has been a growing body of research on fat stigma and discrimination that counter medically claimed warnings of a global “obesity epidemic”. These studies, however, are largely Western-centric and little remains to be known about the prevalence of stigma against fat individual...