The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies.

• Author: Farrell, Amy Erdman.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (381 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Connecting Gender and Fat: Feminism, Intersectionality, and Stigma -- The Essays -- Using This Volume -- Bibliography -- Part II Discourses of Gender and Fat -- 2 Undesirably Different: Hyper(in)visibility and the Gendered Fat Body -- The Spectrum of Visibility and the Phenomenon of Hyper(in)visibility -- Fat, Gender, and Hyper(in)visibility -- Cisgender Women -- Cisgender Men -- Queer People -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Gendered Fat Bodies as Neoliberal Bodies -- The Obesity Epidemic Discourse as a Neoliberal Discourse -- Gender and Neoliberal Care for the Self -- Neoliberal Health, Gender, and Fatness -- Consequences of Neoliberal Body Norms -- Note -- References -- 4 To Have and Not to Hold: Queering Fatness -- Fatness and Gender -- Queering Fat Scholarship: The Beginning -- Branches -- Here, Queer, and FAT: Origins -- Fatshion -- Limitations and The Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Antiblackness, Gender, and Fat -- The (Il)logics and Incoherence of Gender -- Gender and the Black Fat -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Narrating Gender and Fat -- 6 Embodied Narration -- Fat, Gender, and Their Myriad Intersections -- Trans and Non-Binary Fat Appearances -- Fashions and Expectations -- Claiming Spacious and Compassionate Narratives Based On Already Traveled Terrain -- References -- 7 Fat Stories -- Bibliography -- Part IV Historicizing Fatness -- 8 The Politics of Fat and Gender in the Ancient World -- Must Ancient Female Figurines Always Be About Fertility? -- Can a Fat Man Be a Good Leader? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Historicizing Black Women's Anti-Fatness -- Black Women, History, and Fat Studies.

"Warning! Fat Is Dangerous!": Black Women's Citizenship, Racial Pride, and Self-Discipline -- Ambivalent Approaches to Black Women's Anti-Fatness -- Bibliography -- Part V Gender and Fat in Institutions and Public Policy -- 10 Public Policy and the Repercussions of Fat Stigma On Women and Children -- Embodying the Future: The "War On Obesity" and Pregnant Bodies -- Weighting to Conceive: BMI, IVF, and Complications -- Mother Blame: Your Child Is Your Problem (And Everyone Else's) -- Ruling On Appropriate Parenting: Courts and Fat Children -- Cut It Out!: Fat Children, Bullying, and Bariatric Surgeries -- All Women Are Being Drafted Into the "War Against Obesity" -- Reflecting Back On Moving Forward -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11 Histories of Excess: Overlaps Between Anti-Fat and Anti-Latina Public Discourse -- Excessive M(other)hood and Saviorhood -- Mother Monster and Endangering the Nation-State -- Deviant Femininity, Undesirability, and Immigration Law and Policy -- References -- 12 Fatness, Gender, and Academic Achievement in Secondary and Postsecondary Education -- An Overview of the Literature -- Discussion -- The Hidden Curriculum -- Limitations of Existing Research -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part VI Gender and Fat in Health and Medicine -- 13 Eating Disorders, Gender, and Fat: Theorizing the Fat Body in Feminist Theories of Eating Disorders -- Feminist Discourse in Eating Disorders -- The Current Chapter -- Tension 1 -- Fat Acceptance as Integral to Vs. Adjunctive to Feminist Approaches to Eating Disorders -- Tension 2 -- Anti-Fat Messaging as Health Promotion Or as a Trigger for Eating Disorders -- Tension 3 -- The Need for Vs. Harm in Categorizing, Diagnosing, and Pathologizing Eating Problems -- Tension 4 -- Eating Disorders in Non-Western Cultures Vs. Centering White Western Experiences -- Tension 5.

Pro-Ana and Pro-Mia Sites as Spaces of Resistance Vs. Subjugation -- Tension 6 -- Body Dysmorphia Vs. Gender Dysphoria and Other Challenges Facing Trans Eating Disorder Patients -- Conclusion: Fattening Feminist Discourses On Eating Disorders -- Notes -- References -- 14 Immovable Subjects, Unstoppable Forces: Bariatric Surgery, Gender, and the Body -- What Is Bariatric Surgery? -- How Did We Get Here? -- Social Attitudes Regarding Bariatric Surgery -- "The Apotheosis of Fat Hatred:" Bariatric Surgery as Fat Antagonism -- Self/Control: Embodiment, Agency, and Bariatric Surgery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 15 Gender, Fat, and "Reproductive" Health Care: Negotiating Fat Pregnancy in the Context of Eugenics -- A Word On Language -- Understanding Stigma in Reproductive Health Care -- The Role of Risk in Antifat Stigma -- Soft Eugenics -- Patient Experiences -- Discouragement Through Risk Talk -- Discouragement Through "Care" -- Begrudging Care -- Conclusion: Recommendations for Change -- References -- Part VII Gender and Fat in Popular Culture and Media -- 16 Sexy, Docile Bodies: The Objectification and Paternalistic Management of Plus-Size Models -- Maybe She's Born With It. Maybe It's … -- Just Do It (With Your Agent's Permission) -- Got Sexiness? -- Notes -- References -- 17 Big-Gay Men Entering the Twenty-First Century: Global Perspectives On Fat-Affirming Subcultures and Imagery -- The Girth-&amp -- -Mirth Subculture -- The Bear Subculture -- The Gaining Subculture -- Big-Gay Men's Visual Culture: Art, Performance, Digital Media, Fashion, and Pornography -- Art -- Performance -- Digital Media -- Fashion -- Pornography -- Future Research Directions -- Outside U.S. Borders -- Same-Gender-Loving Big Men of Color -- Fat/Femme/Brown and Feeling Down -- Conclusion: Encouraging Fatness as a Form of Protest -- References.

18 From Hattie McDaniel to Queen Latifah: Examining a New Mammy and Other Fat Black Women Representations in Contemporary Media -- Why Fat Black Women? -- Depictions of Black Women in Popular Culture -- Mammy Archetype-The Self-Sacrificer -- Sapphire Archetype-The Hypercritical One -- Jezebel Archetype-The Seductive Succubus -- Ask Black Women On Instagram -- At the Intersection of Fatness, Blackness, and Womanhood -- Meet Dana Owens -- Living Single -- Khadijah James: A Recreation of the Mammy Trope -- Meet Mo'Nique Hicks -- Precious: Based On the Novel "Push" By Sapphire -- Mary Jones: A Recreation of the Sapphire Trope -- Meet Natasha Rothwell On HBO's Insecure -- Kelli Prenny: A Recreation of the Jezebel Trope -- Art Created By Black Women for Black Audiences -- Conclusion: Fat Black Women Matter On Television and in Real Life -- Bibliography -- Part VIII Gender, Fat, and Resistance -- 19 Coming Out as Fat -- Fat Stigma -- Is There a Closet for Fat People? -- Collective Fat Identity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 20 Fat Air -- Notes -- 21 Belle Di Faccia: Fat Activism in Italy -- The So-Called "Curvy Revolution" -- Fat Acceptance: How the Movement Has Been Communicated in Italy -- Our Experience as Activists: Belle Di Faccia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 22 "Your Belly Is a Heap of Wheat": A Torah of Fat Liberation -- Notes -- References -- 23 Don't Forget to Be Yourself -- Part IX In Memoriam -- 24 Friend of Cat -- Epilogue -- Index.