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Bariatric Surgery Patients' Perceptions of Weight-Related Stigma in Healthcare Settings Impair Post-surgery Dietary Adherence by Raves, Danielle M, Brewis, Alexandra, Trainer, Sarah, Han, Seung-Yong, Wutich, Amber

“…Weight-related stigma is reported frequently by higher body-weight patients in healthcare settings. Bariatric surgery triggers profound weight loss. This…”
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Metatheme Analysis: A Qualitative Method for Cross-Cultural Research by Wutich, Amber, Beresford, Melissa, SturtzSreetharan, Cindi, Brewis, Alexandra, Trainer, Sarah, Hardin, Jessica

“…In recent years, there has been a florescence of cross-cultural research using ethnographic and qualitative data. This cutting-edge work confronts a range of…”
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Managing menstruation with dignity: Worries, stress and mental health in two water-scarce urban communities in India by Choudhary, Neetu, SturtzSreetharan, Cindi, Trainer, Sarah, Brewis, Alexandra, Wutich, Amber, Clancy, Kathryn, Fatima, Urooba Ahmed, Jobayer Hossain, Mohammad

“…An emerging body of literature examines multiple connections between water insecurity and mental health, with particular focus on women's vulnerabilities…”
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Body Image, Health, and Modernity: Women's Perspectives and Experiences in the United Arab Emirates by Trainer, Sarah S.

“…The countries of the Arab Gulf have experienced accelerated development and urbanization over the last 50 years. Changes in health have likewise been dramatic:…”
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No ‘easy’ weight loss: don’t overlook the social cost of anti-obesity drugs by Brewis, Alexandra, Trainer, Sarah

“…Ideas of diet and exercise as the ‘best’ way to lose weight could stigmatize people taking Ozempic, WeGovy and other blockbuster drugs that affect appetite…”
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Blogs as Elusive Ethnographic Texts by Kurtz, Liza C, Trainer, Sarah, Beresford, Melissa, Wutich Amber, Brewis, Alexandra

“…Burgeoning online environments offer completely new opportunities for ethnographic and other forms of qualitative research. Yet there are no clear standards…”
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Elective surgery to save my life: rethinking the “choice” in bariatric surgery by Trainer, Sarah, Benjamin, Tonya

“…Aims The aim of this study was to explicate the processes by which a patient's choice to undergo bariatric surgery is made to feel like a medical necessity, to…”
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Piety, Glamour, and Protest: Performing Social Status and Affiliation in the United Arab Emirates by Trainer, Sarah

“…This article focuses on the fashion choices and performances that female Emirati students attending public university in the UAE create across different social…”
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The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma by SturtzSreetharan, Cindi, Trainer, Sarah, Brewis, Alexandra

“…Understanding language as a social action draws attention to the ways in which fat stigmatizing discourses do social harm. Drawing on interviews and…”
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Negotiating weight and body image in the UAE: Strategies among young emirati women by Trainer, Sarah

“…Objectives: The goal of this study was to evaluate weight, nutritional status, and attitudes toward weight and health among a cohort of young women drawn from…”
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Shame, Blame, and Status Incongruity: Health and Stigma in Rural Brazil and the Urban United Arab Emirates by Weaver, Lesley Jo, Trainer, Sarah

“…Stigma is a powerful determinant of physical and mental health around the world, a perennial public health concern that is particularly resistant to change…”
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Not 'Taking the Easy Way Out': Reframing Bariatric Surgery from Low-effort Weight Loss to Hard Work by Trainer, Sarah, Brewis, Alexandra, Wutich, Amber

“…Cultural notions equating greater morality and virtue with hard work and productive output are deeply embedded in American value systems. This is exemplified…”
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Eating in the Panopticon: Surveillance of Food and Weight before and after Bariatric Surgery by Trainer, Sarah, Wutich, Amber, Brewis, Alexandra

“…In this article, we explore the processes by which surveillance of eating and weight is coupled with popular and medical ideas about discipline,…”
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Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self‐blame by Trainer, Sarah, SturtzSreetharan, Cindi, Wutich, Amber, Brewis, Alexandra, Hardin, Jessica

“…Norms valorizing not‐fat bodies appear to have spread around the world, combined with a globalizing belief that thinness is the result of individual management…”
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The Fat Self in Virtual Communities: Success and Failure in Weight-Loss Blogging by Trainer, Sarah, Brewis, Alexandra, Wutich, Amber, Kurtz, Liza, Niesluchowski, Monet

“…Weight and weight loss are major cultural preoccupations in the United States today, and stigma stemming from being socially categorized as fat appears to be…”
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Translating obesity: Navigating the front lines of the "war on fat" by Trainer, Sarah, Brewis, Alexandra, Hruschka, Daniel, Williams, Deborah

“…Objectives Obesity is treated within medicine, public health, and applied sciences as a biomedical fact with urgent health implications; obesity is also,…”
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Publically Misfitting: Extreme Weight and the Everyday Production and Reinforcement of Felt Stigma by Brewis, Alexandra, Trainer, Sarah, Han, SeungYong, Wutich, Amber

“…Living with extreme weight in the United States is associated with discrimination and self‐stigma, creating structural exclusions, embodied stress, and…”
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Weight stigma after bariatric surgery: A qualitative study with Brazilian women by Dimitrov Ulian, Mariana, Fernandez Unsain, Ramiro, Rocha Franco, Ruth, Aurélio Santo, Marco, Brewis, Alexandra, Trainer, Sarah, SturtzSreetharan, Cindi, Wutich, Amber, Gualano, Bruno, Baeza Scagliusi, Fernanda

“…Prior studies suggest that one anticipated benefit of bariatric surgery is the achievement of a thinner body, one that is less subject to perceived negative…”
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Obese, Fat, or “Just Big”? Young Adult Deployment of and Reactions to Weight Terms by Trainer, Sarah, Brewis, Alexandra, Williams, Deborah, Chavez, Jose Rosales

“…This study expands understanding of how university students use and react to fat-related terms. The study was conducted in three phases: (1) a tool development…”
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Worry-Nostalgia: Anxieties around the Fading of Local Cuisines and Foodways by Trainer, Sarah, Hardin, Jessica, SturtzSreetharan, Cindi, Brewis, Alexandra

“…Worry-nostalgia is a particular iteration of felt anxiety that certain material things and ways of being in the world are slipping away. We suggest that this…”
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