Weight Bias Internalization as an Embodied Process: Understanding How Obesity Stigma Gets Under the Skin

Abstract

We have defined embodiment elsewhere as depicting "the fusion of the mind and body in a process whereby the society and culture within which we live are experienced in bodily terms and internalized by us: they are embodied" (Williams and Annandale, 2014, p. 1868). 2 We initially place these terms in inverted commas in recognition that their meaning and use are challenged.