Browsing by Subject "Fatphobia"

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    La gordofobia es un problema del trabajo social
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2017) NAVAJAS-PERTEGÁS, NINA
    La «guerra contra la obesidad» se ha convertido en foco de atención de las agencias de salud pública y de los gobiernos occidentales. Su retórica responsabiliza a las personas gordas por su incapacidad para mantenerse saludables. Aunque el tono alarmista del discurso biomédico y algunas falsedades sobre los peligros de la gordura han sido abordados desde varias profesiones de ayuda, el trabajo social apenas ha problematizado las discriminaciones sociales producidas por la gordofobia. Este artículo trata de esbozar cómo abordar esta problemática desde una perspectiva anti-opresiva.
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    Gordofobia, derecho y cuerpos disidentes: una mirada comparada sociojurídica entre Francia y España
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2026) Collantes Sánchez, Beatriz; Sin departamento asociado
    This article examines fatphobia as a form of structural violence at the intersection of law, health, and culture, through a comparative analysis of France and Spain. Drawing on a theoretical framework that brings together biopower (Foucault), feminist and decolonial critiques of the body (Bordo; Strings; Vergès; Moreno Figueroa), and the notions of stigma (Goffman) and bodily/erotic capital (Bourdieu; Moreno Pestaña), I argue that law operates as a somatocratic technology: by adopting weight-centric biomedical parameters (e.g., BMI), it legitimizes the exclusion of fat bodies in employment and healthcare settings. Methodology: documentary analysis of legislation and public policies, and a selective review of case law and institutional reports (FR/ES). Findings: (i) both legal systems rely on general equality principles and lack explicit recognition of fatphobia as a protected category; (ii) in France, the category “physical appearance” and the role of the Défenseur des droits have fostered a nascent institutionalization of the issue; (iii) in Spain, sporadic jurisprudential advances coexist with regulatory gaps. Conclusion: a bodily justice agenda is proposed, including the legal recognition of fatphobia as a ground of discrimination, the revision of exclusionary bodily requirements, and legal education with an intersectional approach.