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.