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Feederism : Eating, Weight Gain, and Sexual Pleasure by Michael Palkowski and Kathy Charles (2015, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-101137470453

ISBN-139781137470454

eBay Product ID (ePID)215286925

Product Key Features

Number of PagesX, 102 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFeederism : Eating, Weight Gain, and Sexual Pleasure

SubjectGender Studies, Psychopathology / General, Social Psychology, Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichael Palkowski, Kathy Charles

Subject AreaSocial Science, Health & Fitness, Psychology

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight10.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal613.019

SynopsisSexualised weight gain, also known as feederism, has become the subject of documentaries, films, and media coverage over the last 15 years. A growing internet community and online presence has brought this fetish to mainstream attention and it has become an easy target for concern, ridicule, and disgust. Through careful sociological and psychological analysis this text challenges assumptions around the power dynamics and coercion thought to exist in feederism. Discussions with feeders and feedees from a range of backgrounds explore their childhood fascination with fat along with a lifelong sexual preference for weight gain. This allows stereotypes centred on gender and sexuality to be broken down as the diversity of the community becomes apparent. The implications for the ways in which health professionals advise overweight patients are also discussed with a critical evaluation of the Health at Any Size movement. This text provides the most comprehensive analysis of this topic published so far., This book explores the controversial and misunderstood world of sexualised weight gain known as feederism. Conversations with over 20 feeders and feedees are analysed through a psychological and sociological lens. The implications for health professionals working in bariatrics are discussed along with directions for future research.

LC Classification NumberBF692-692.5