I find it hard to take some of this writing seriously, but here
is an interesting take on obesity “informed by feminist poststructuralist
theory” which argues, among other things that:
Obesity science qualifies as ‘state science,’ to use
Foucault’s term: it is a tangled web of government lobbies, academia and its
research sponsors, service industries from the human genome sciences to
multinational pharmaceutical and agribusiness complexes, the legal-juridical
complex, and the insurance industry. Obesity science and its hegemonic norms
have instituted a hidden political agenda through the very language and
technologies deployed in the name of ‘truth.’ Obesity science and its dominant
discourse act as a ‘fascist structure’