The Fat Studies Reader / / ed. by Sondra Solovay, Esther Rothblum.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aldebaran,,; Aphramor, Lucy,; Asbill, D. Lacy,; Attig, Derek,; Bergman, S. Bear,; Bernstein, Beth,; Boero, Natalie,; Burgard, Deb,; Burns-Ardolino, Wendy A.,; Cooper, Charlotte,; Dykewomon, Elana,; Ellison, Jenny,; Ernsberger, Paul,; Escalera, Elena Andrea,; Farrell, Amy,; Fisanick, Christina,; Fraser, Laura,; Frater, Lara,; Freespirit, Judy,; Gaesser, Glenn,; Gailey, Jeannine,; Gingras, Jacqui,; Giovanelli, Dina,; Guthman, Julie,; Hetrick, Ashley,; Huff, Joyce L.,; Isono, Maho,; Jennings, Laura,; Jester, JuliaGrace,; Koppelman, Susan,; Krehbiel, Michelle,; LeBesco, Kathleen,; Levy-Navarro, Elena,; Lian, Lee Ee,; Loewy, Michael I.,; Lyons, Pat,; McAllister, Heather,; McCrossin, Julia,; Mendoza, Katharina R.,; Ostertag, Stephen,; Prohaska, Ariane,; Pyle, Nathaniel C.,; Rothblum, Esther,; Royce, Tracy,; Schuster, Dana,; Snider, Stefanie,; Solovay, Sondra,; St. John, Matilda,; Stinson, Susan,; Tealer, Lisa,; Thomas, Pattie,; Vade, Dylan,; Wann, Marilyn,; Watkins, Patti Lou,; Weinstock, Jacqueline,; Wilson, Bianca D. M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rothblum, Esther,; Solovay, Sondra,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wann, Marilyn.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in PsychologyWinner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture AssociationWe have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. What Is Fat Studies? The Social and Historical Construction of Fatness
• 1. The Inner Corset
• 2. Fattening Queer History
• Part II. Fat Studies in Health and Medicine
• 3. Does Social Class Explain the Connection Between Weight and Health?
• 4. Is “Permanent Weight Loss” an Oxymoron?
• 5. What Is “Health at Every Size”?
• 6. Widening the Dialogue to Narrow the Gap in Health Disparities
• 7. Quest for a Cause
• 8. Prescription for Harm
• 9. Public Fat
• 10. That Remains to Be Said Disappeared Feminist Discourses on Fat in Dietetic Theory and Practice
• 11. Fatness (In)visible
• Part III. Fatness as Social Inequality
• 12. Fat Kids, Working Moms, and the “Epidemic of Obesity”
• 13. Fat Youth as Common Targets for Bullying
• 14. Bon Bon Fatty Girl
• 15. Part-Time Fatso
• 16. Double Stigma: Fat Men and Their Male Admirers
• 17. The Shape of Abuse
• 18. Fat Women as “Easy Targets”
• 19. No Apology
• 20. Access to the Sky
• 21. Neoliberalism and the Constitution of Contemporary Bodies
• 22. Sitting Pretty
• 23. Stigma Threat and the Fat Professor
• 24. Fat Stories in the Classroom
• Part IV. Size-ism in Popular Culture and Literature
• 25. Fat Girls and Size Queens
• 26. Fat Girls Need Fiction
• 27. Fat Heroines in Chick-Lit
• 28. The Fat of the (Border)land
• 29. Placing Fat Women on Center Stage
• 30. “The White Man’s Burden”
• 31. The Roseanne Benedict Arnolds
• 32. Jiggle in My Walk
• 33. Seeing Through the Layers
• 34. Controlling the Body
• 35. “I’m Allowed to Be a Sexual Being”
• 36. Embodying Fat Liberation
• 37. Not Jane Fonda
• 38. Exorcising the Exercise Myth
• Part VI. Starting the Revolution
• 39. Maybe It Should Be Called Fat American Studies
• 40. Are We Ready to Throw Our Weight Around? Fat Studies and Political Activism
• Appendix A
• About the Contributors
• Index