The fat studies reader /
We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about the "obesity epidemic" stalking the nation are read by a disembodied voice. And we have seen the movies,...
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- The inner corset : a brief history of fat in the United States
- Fattening queer history : where does fat history go from here?
- Does social class explain the connection between weight and health?
- Is "permanent weight loss" an oxymoron? The statistics on weight loss and the national weight control registry
- What is "health at every size"?
- Widening the dialogue to narrow the gap in health disparities : approaches to fat black lesbian and bisexual women's health promotion
- Quest for a cause : the fat gene, the gay gene, and the new eugenics
- Prescription for harm : diet industry influence, public health policy, and the "obesity epidemic"
- Public fat : Canadian provincial governments and fat on the web
- That remains to be said : disappeared feminist discourses on fat in dietetic theory and practice
- Fatness (in)visible : polycystic ovarian syndrome and the rhetoric of normative femininity
- Fat kids, working moms, and the "epidemic of obesity" : race, class, and mother blame
- Fat youth as common targets for bullying
- Bon bon fatty girl : a qualitative exploration of weight bias in Singapore
- Part-time fatso
- Double stigma : fat men and their male admirers
- The shape of abuse : fat oppression as a form of violence against women
- Fat women as "easy targets" : achieving masculinity through hogging
- No apology : shared struggles in fat and transgender law
- Access to the sky : airplane seats and fat bodies as contested spaces
- Neoliberalism and the constitution of contemporary bodies
- Sitting pretty : fat bodies, classroom desks, and academic excess
- Stigma threat and the fat professor : reducing student prejudice in the classroom
- Fat stories in the classroom : what and how are they teaching about us?
- Fat girls and size queens : alternative publications and the visualizing of fat and queer eroto-politics in contemporary American culture
- Fat girls need fiction
- Fat heroines in chick-lit : gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?
- The fat of the (border)land : food, flesh, and Hispanic masculinity in Willa Cather's 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'
- Placing fat women on center stage
- "The white man's burden" : female sexuality, tourist postcards, and the place of the fat woman in early 20th century U.S. culture
- The Roseanne Benedict Arnolds : how fat women are betrayed by their celebrity icons
- Jiggle in my walk : the iconic power of the "big butt" in American pop culture
- Seeing through the layers : fat suits and thin bodies in 'The Nutty Professor' and 'Shallow Hal'
- Controlling the body : media representations, body size, and self-discipline
- "I'm allowed to be a sexual being" : the distinctive social conditions of the fat burlesque stage
- Embodying fat liberation
- Not Jane Fonda : aerobics for fat women only
- Exorcising the exercise myth : creating women of substance
- Maybe it should be called fat American studies
- Are we ready to throw our weight around? Fat studies and political activism
- Appendix A : Fat Liberation Manifesto, November 1973
- Appendix B : Legal briefs.