The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367502942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 294 str.

Cat Paus?; Sonya Renee Taylor

Opis

The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of Fat Studies topics and perspectives. The first major collection of its kind, it explores the epistemology, ontology, and methodology of fatness, with attention to issues such as gender and sexuality, disability and embodiment, health, race, media, discrimination, and pedagogy. Presenting work from both scholarly writers and activists, this volume reflects a range of critical perspectives vital to the expansion of Fat Studies and thus constitutes an essential resource for researchers in the field.

Recenzje

"...the scholars of The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies take their readers by the hand and show them where they can find a place of their own within a necessary and essential field of study and activism. In adding this text to the fat canon, I believe, along with Pausé and Taylor, that the 'future of Fat Studies is very fat' (13)." - Ashlen Cheyenne Duhon, Fat Studies

Spis treści

1. Fattening up scholarship  PART 1: Defining fat  2. "Am I fat?"  3. Quantifying or contributing to antifat attitudes?  4. Language, fat and causation  5. My life is intersectional, so my coaching has to be: Here is why this is a good thing  PART 2: Theorizing fatness  6. Feminism and fat  7. Big, fat, Greek modernities: On fatness, Western imperatives and modern Greek culture  8. Does that mean my body must always be a source of pain? Sexual violence, trauma and agency in Argentinian fat activist spaces  9. Fatness and consequences of neoliberalism  10. Fat and trans: Towards a new theorization of gender in Fat Studies  11. Fatness and disability: Law, identity, co-constructions, and future directions  PART 3: Fat in the institution  12. Fat in the media  13. Being fat in a thin world: The politics of fashion  14. Fattening education: An invitation to the nascent field of fat pedagogy  15. Fatness, discrimination and law: An international perspective  16. Pregnancy, parenting and the challenge of fatness  17. Fat Studies and public health  PART 4: Living fat  18. Reclaiming voices from stigma: Fat autoethnography as a consciously political act  19. Save the whales: An examination of the relationship between academics/professionals and fat activists  20. Fat hatred and body respect: The curious case of Iceland  21. Desirability as access: Navigating life at the intersection of fat, Black, dark and female  22. The impact of being a fat Chinese woman in Hong Kong  23. Surviving and thriving while fat  24. Review of scholarship on fat-gay men  PART 5: Fat disruptions  25. Genealogies of excess: Towards a decolonial Fat Studies  26. When you are already dead: Black fat being as afrofuturism  27. TransFat  28. Lesbians and fat  29. What’s queer about Fat Studies now? A critical exploration of queer/ing fatness