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How poverty shapes bodies and social judgment

I gained sixty pounds after I lost my health insurance because cheap food was all I could afford and now people look at me like my body is evidence of my moral failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic constraint inscribes itself on the body, inviting moral interpretation of material conditions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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