The Routledge international handbook of fat studies. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: International handbook of fat studies; Fat studies
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cat Pausé and Sonya Renee Taylor.
• Editors: Pausé, Cat; Renee Taylor, Sonya, 1976-
• Contents: 1. Fattening up scholarship Cat Pausé and Sonya Renee Taylor PART 1: Defining fat 2. "Am I fat?" Darci L. Thoune 3. Quantifying or contributing to antifat attitudes? Patricia Cain, Ngaire Donaghue, and Graeme Ditchburn 4. Language, fat and causation Kimberly Dark 5. My life is intersectional, so my coaching has to be: Here is why this is a good thing Tiana A. Dodson PART 2: Theorizing fatness 6. Feminism and fat Amy Erdman Farrell 7. Big, fat, Greek modernities: On fatness, Western imperatives and modern Greek culture Sofia Apostolidou 8. Does that mean my body must always be a source of pain? Sexual violence, trauma and agency in Argentinian fat activist spaces Laura Contrera 9. Fatness and consequences of neoliberalism Hannele Harjunen 10. Fat and trans: Towards a new theorization of gender in Fat Studies Francis Ray White 11. Fatness and disability: Law, identity, co-constructions, and future directions April Herndon PART 3: Fat in the institution 12. Fat in the media Katariina Kyrölä 13. Being fat in a thin world: The politics of fashion Amena Azeez 14. Fattening education: An invitation to the nascent field of fat pedagogy Erin Cameron and Constance Russell 15. Fatness, discrimination and law: An international perspective Stephanie von Liebenstein 16. Pregnancy, parenting and the challenge of fatness May Friedman 17. Fat Studies and public health Natalie Ingraham PART 4: Living fat 18. Reclaiming voices from stigma: Fat autoethnography as a consciously political act Jenny Lee and Emily McAvan 19. Save the whales: An examination of the relationship between academics/professionals and fat activists Kath Read 20. Fat hatred and body respect: The curious case of Iceland Tara Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir 21. Desirability as access: Navigating life at the intersection of fat, Black, dark and female Nomonde Mxhalisa 22. The impact of being a fat Chinese woman in Hong Kong Bertha Chan Hiu Yau 23. Surviving and thriving while fat Sonalee Rashatwar 24. Review of scholarship on fat-gay men Jason Whitesel PART 5: Fat disruptions 25. Genealogies of excess: Towards a decolonial Fat Studies Athia N. Choudhury 26. When you are already dead: Black fat being as afrofuturism Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford 27. TransFat Sam Orchard 28. Lesbians and fat Esther D. Rothblum 29. What’s queer about Fat Studies now? A critical exploration of queer/ing fatness Allison Taylor
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.196398; Obesity; Obesity -- Social aspects; Overweight persons
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000367478; 9781000367447; 9781003049401
• Related ISBNs: 9780367502928
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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