About the book: year / This is a book about why the fat body is highly stigmatized and considered pathological, why it is the subject of such intense discussion revolving around how to reduce it the body in sizes to acceptable, from the point of view of society and medicine, proportions. It is about the lived experience of fatness: what it is like to be obese in a fatphobic society. It also covers fat activism, obesity politics and related controversies and controversies. Internationally renowned sociologist Deborah Lupton explores fat as an artefact: as a bodily substance and bodily form that is conceptualized through complex and ever-changing systems of ideas, practices, emotions, material objects and interpersonal relationships. This analysis reveals the broader contexts and currents within which practices related to the human body and self are carried out. The book, written in a lively, engaging language, is intended both for a general audience and for students and researchers interested in issues of the politics of physicality and health.