Catherine Trundle is a senior lecturer in anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington
Plenty of attention is given to the health implications of obesity, but much less thought is given to how a fat-stigmatising culture damages people – women especially. Why can't all bodies, not just slim ones, be allowed to feel comfortable in their own skin, asks Catherine Trundle.
Messages exhorting the importance of mastering self-control come loaded with cultural assumptions and overlook the hidden costs, writes anthropologist Catherine Trundle.
With the equal pay conversation in full swing, Dr Catherine Trundle examines the undervaluing women's care work in society, and the steps we need to take to demand change.
