„Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě
This article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country’s late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked...
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| description | This article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country’s late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked together to produce a socialist subject. On the first level, it analyses the expert anti-obesity discourse as an example of the expertisation of public discourse in socialist Czechoslovakia. Second, it shows the construction of obesity in contrast to bodily ability, and the stigmatisation of the ‘fat’ body. On the last level, the article focuses on the gendered aspects of the discourse and demonstrates the ways in which the anti-obesity campaign supported the heteronormative framework of late socialism. By examining expert and media discourses, the article argues that the campaign against obesity served as a means to construct a proper socialist body and induce a moral panic about the state of socialism. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0e1c1eefacea427cbd01cc13a394adf42025-08-20T02:41:51ZcesCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of SociologyGender a Výzkum2570-65782570-65862016-07-01171152810.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.252„Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitěMichaela AppeltováThis article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country’s late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked together to produce a socialist subject. On the first level, it analyses the expert anti-obesity discourse as an example of the expertisation of public discourse in socialist Czechoslovakia. Second, it shows the construction of obesity in contrast to bodily ability, and the stigmatisation of the ‘fat’ body. On the last level, the article focuses on the gendered aspects of the discourse and demonstrates the ways in which the anti-obesity campaign supported the heteronormative framework of late socialism. By examining expert and media discourses, the article argues that the campaign against obesity served as a means to construct a proper socialist body and induce a moral panic about the state of socialism.https://www.genderonline.cz/uploads/f6905790b478b387b0df048a4d3dbe9ff8bcb19e_stat-appeltova.pdfobesitygendered bodyembodimentdis/abilityphysical fitnessexpert discourselate socialism |
| spellingShingle | Michaela Appeltová „Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě Gender a Výzkum obesity gendered body embodiment dis/ability physical fitness expert discourse late socialism |
| title | „Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě |
| title_full | „Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě |
| title_fullStr | „Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě |
| title_full_unstemmed | „Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě |
| title_short | „Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě |
| title_sort | tluste telo v normalizacnim ceskoslovensku povinna zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezite |
| topic | obesity gendered body embodiment dis/ability physical fitness expert discourse late socialism |
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