ABSTRACT
The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.
Comprising over 20 chapters from a range of diverse and international contributors, the Reader is structured around the following key themes: theorizing gender and fat; narrating gender and fat; historicizing gender and fat; institutions and public policy; health and medicine; popular culture and media; and resistance. It is an intersectional collection, highlighting the ways that "gender" and "fat" always exist in connection with multiple other structures, forms of oppression, and identities, including race, ethnicity, sexualities, age, nationalities, disabilities, religion, and class.
The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Body Studies, Cultural Studies, Psychology, and Health.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|16 pages
Introduction
part II|49 pages
Discourses of Gender and Fat
part III|29 pages
Narrating Gender and Fat
part IV|24 pages
Historicizing Fatness
part V|43 pages
Gender and Fat in Institutions and Public Policy
chapter 12|12 pages
Fatness, Gender, and Academic Achievement in Secondary and Postsecondary Education
part VI|62 pages
Gender and Fat in Health and Medicine
chapter 13|20 pages
Eating Disorders, Gender, and Fat
chapter 15|18 pages
Gender, Fat, and “Reproductive” Health Care
part VII|53 pages
Gender and Fat in Popular Culture and Media
chapter 16|12 pages
Sexy, Docile Bodies
chapter 17|24 pages
Big-Gay Men Entering the Twenty-First Century
chapter 18|15 pages
From Hattie McDaniel to Queen Latifah
part VIII|58 pages
Gender, Fat, and Resistance
part IX|10 pages
In Memoriam