Sugar Rush by Karen Throsby

Sugar Rush by Karen Throsby

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Sugar Rush by Karen Throsby

Sugar rush argues that despite its revolutionary claims, the contemporary attack on sugar represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo. -- .

'Are we asking the wrong questions about sugar? This smart and excellent book argues that we are’
Jayne Raisborough, author of Fat Bodies, Health and the Media

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Karen Throsby has been researching issues of gender, technology, bodies and health for over 20 years, including work on reproductive technologies, weight loss surgery and endurance sport. She is the author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Identity and Embodiment (2016) and When IVF Fails: Feminist, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (2004). She is currently Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.
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ISBN 13 9781526151551
ISBN 10 1526151553
Title Sugar Rush
Author Karen Throsby
Series Inscriptions
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2023-06-20
Number of pages 304
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