Thickening fat : fat bodies, intersectionality, and social justice /: fat bodies, intersectionality, and social justice. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by May Friedman, Carla Rice, and Jen Rinaldi.
• Editors: Friedman, May, 1975-; Rice, Carla; Rinaldi, Jen
• Contents: Acknowledgments. ; Introduction. Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rive, and May Friedman Part I: Our Heavy Inheritance ; 1. The Big Colonial Bones of Indigenous North America’s “Obesity Epidemic”. Margaret Robinson 2. Origin Stories: Thickening Fat and the Problem of Historiography. Amy Erdman Farrell 3. Fat Pedagogy for Queers: Chicana Body Becoming in Four Acts. Karleen Pendleton Jiménez 4. “May My Children Always Have Milk and Rice”: Problematizing the Role of Mothers in Childhood Fatness in India. Sucharita Sarkar 5. Tracing Fatness Through the Eating Disorder Assemblage. Andrea Lamarre, Carla Rice, and Jen Rinaldi Part II: Exploding Our Expectations ; 6. Critiquing the DSM-V Narrative of “Obesity” as “Mental Illness”. Sarah Blanchette 7. Taking Up Space in the Doctor’s Office: How My Racialized Fat Body Confronts Medical Discourse. Sonia Meerai 8. “You’re Just Another Friggin’ Number to Add to the Problem”: Constructing the Racialized (M)other in Contemporary Discourses of Pregnancy Fatness. George Parker, Cat Pausé, and Jade Le Grice 9. Embodying the Fat/Trans Intersection. Francis Ray White 10. Medicalization, Maternity, and the Materiality of Resistance: “Maternal Obesity” and Experiences of Reproductive Care. Deborah McPhail and Lindsey Mazur Part III: Expanding Our Activisms ; 11. No Bad Fatties Allowed?: Negotiating the Meaning and Power of the Mutable Body. Heather Brown and April M. Herndon 12. Oppressive Liberation: BBW Bashes and the Affective Rollercoaster. Crystal L. M. Kotow 13. Thick Sistahs and Heavy Disprivilege: Black Women, Intersectionality, and Weight Stigma. E-K. Daufin 14. Photographing Fatness: Resisting Assimilation Through Fat Activist Calendars. Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst 15. Queering Fat Activism: A Study in Whiteness. Emily R.M. Lind Part IV: Our Gainful Failures ; 16. Working Towards the Affirmation of Fatness and Impairment. Ramanpreet Annie Bahra and James Overboe 17. “Hey, Little Fat Kid”: My Impaired, Fat, Hairy, White, Male Body. Michael Gill 18. Reading and Affirming Alternatives in the Academy: Black Fat Queer Femme Embodiment. Mary Senyonga 19. Fat Camp: A Conversation on YA Fiction, Fat Shame, and Queer Love. Marty Fink and Julie Hollenbach 20. Dismantling the Empire: In Defense of Incoherence and Intersectionality. May Friedman Contributor Biographies. Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4/613; Body image -- Social aspects; Overweight persons -- Social conditions; Overweight persons -- Political activity; Fat-acceptance movement; Feminist criticism; Social justice; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429017643; 0429017642; 9780429507540; 0429507542; 9780429017636; 0429017634; 9780429017629; 0429017626
• Related ISBNs: 9781138580039; 1138580031; 9781138580022; 1138580023
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2019).
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