Robin Shakespeare’s Reviews > Heavy: The Obesity Crisis in Cultural Context > Status Update

With a sociological lens she characterises the moral panic around obesity as an unpredicted, unintended consequence of rhetoric around the war on terror, a tangible vehicle for the expression of panic around control, discipline, monitoring, and strength.

With a sociological lens she characterises the moral panic around obesity as an unpredicted, unintended consequence of rhetoric around the war on terror, a tangible vehicle for the expression of panic around weakness or impotence.