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Control through Compassion: Legitimizations of Surveillance, Dynamics of Power, and the Role of the Expert in the Finnish Makeover TV Shows Jutta and the Super Diet and Jutta and the Half-Year Super Diet
Ritter, Susanne (2021)
articleDisciplinary practices on the gendered fat body are a central aspect of weight-loss makeover TV shows; however, they are subtle and hard to identify. I ask how surveillance and control are legitimized as appropriate methods ... -
Fat bodies, intimate relationships and the self in finnish and American weight-loss TV shows
Ritter, Susanne (2023)
articleAs sites where the construction of identity and selfhood take place, relationship-focused weight-loss TV shows reproduce the notion of a correlation between a woman’s body size, her ‘success’ in romantic relationships, and ... -
‘When I lose the weight, we’ll go on a date’–fatness, singleness and liminality in Fat Chance
Ritter, Susanne (2023)
articleIn contemporary Western culture, fatness and singlehood are constructed as requiring change: from fat to thin, from single to coupled. Makeover shows with a dating theme that focus on both aspects in connection to each ...