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In The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women’s perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them. The book explores the phenomenon of ‘hyper(in)visibility’, the seemingly paradoxical social position of being paid exceptional attention while simultaneously being erased.
In recent decades the rise of the so-called “global obesity epidemic” has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas. Fatness and fat bodies are shamed and demonised, and the public monitoring, surveillance and outright policing by the media, health professionals, and the general public are pervasive and…
YoungGiftedandFat is a critical autoethnography of “performing thin”– on the stage and in life. Sharrell D. Luckett’s story of weight loss and gain and playing the (beautiful, desirable, thin) leading lady showcases an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to issues of weight and self-esteem, performance, race, and gender. Sharrell structures her project with creative text, interviews,…
Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around “obesity” impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-course approach, the book begins with analyses of the ways in which fatphobia is enacted on pregnant (or even not-yet-pregnant) women, whose bodies immediately become viewed as…
The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress’s body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.
FAT STUDIES IN THE UK brings together academics, health practitioners, activists and artists to discuss how contemporary UK culture represents, attempts to control and demonises fat. The book contains articles, cartoons, personal reflection and reports of activism to offer a variety of ways to understand fat. Contributors present stirring and suggestive calls to action for…
“Fat People Don’t Go to Heaven!” screamed a headline in the tabloid Globe in November 2000. The story recounted the success of the Weigh Down Workshop, the nation’s largest Christian diet corporation and the subject of extensive press coverage from Larry King Live to the New Yorker. In the United States today, hundreds of thousands…
In this tour de force the author traces the older, positive meanings of the word “fat.” He analyzes “the thing fat, ” discussing not only the aesthetics of fat but also the nature of fat. He examines “fat sex, ” including representations of the human body designed to arouse people whose taste in beauty is…
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of ‘fat’ women in contemporary Western society. Engaging with dominant ideas about ‘fatness’, and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, The ‘Fat’ Female Body explores the moral panic over the ‘obesity epidemic’,…
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you’ll find few women who haven’t been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you’ll see no body outlaws. The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In doing so, they expand the…
Whether they are rich or poor, liberal or conservative, religious or atheist, thriving or stagnant, most American women have one thing in common–they want to be thin–or thinner. And they are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get that way, even to the point of starving themselves. Why are America’s women so preoccupied with…
hickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat oppression and fat activisms. Moving beyond an analysis of fat oppression as singular, this book will aim to unpack the volatility of fat―the mutability of fat embodiments as they correlate with other embodied subjectivities, and the threshold…
It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the early 1970s. This book focuses on the earliest strands of the Canadian movement, which emerged around 1977 and ended around 1997 with the emergence of defiant performance artists Pretty, Porky, and…
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is wearing only panties, and her belly and side rolls, arms, and tattooed and unshaven legs are fully visible. A gray cat sits next to her and she’s holding a book and laughing.
On a chilly, bright, sunny autumn afternoon, an Asian American woman in her 30s writes in a small notebook with a pen while sitting on the roots of a large redwood tree stump. This woman wears plus-size clothing and has short hair and is wearing a red scarf, white winter jacket, patterned dark blue top,…
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and is wearing a white neck brace. She’s writing, journaling, sketching or drawing in the open notebook in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and is wearing a white neck brace. She’s writing, journaling, sketching or drawing in the open notebook in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and is wearing a white neck brace. She’s writing, journaling, sketching or drawing in the open notebook in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and is wearing a white neck brace. She’s writing, journaling, sketching or drawing in the open notebook in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and is wearing a white neck brace. She’s writing, journaling, sketching or drawing in the open notebook in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is wearing only panties, and her back and side rolls are fully visible. Only her waist, back, shoulders and arm are visible.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and wearing a soft neck brace. She’s reading and concentrating on the book or journal in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and wearing a soft neck brace. She’s reading and concentrating on the book or journal in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket and wearing a soft neck brace. She’s reading and concentrating on the book or journal in front of her.
A plus-size woman lies on a bed with pale blue sheets in a white room. She is covered by a soft blue blanket. She’s glancing over at the viewer from the open book in front of her.
