Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138580039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str.

May Friedman; Jen Rinaldi; Carla Rice

Opis

 Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality and Social Justice, seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat oppression and fat activisms.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Our Heavy Inheritance 1. The Big Colonial Bones of Indigenous North America’s “Obesity Epidemic”. 2. Origin Stories: Thickening Fat and the Problem of Historiography. 3. Fat Pedagogy for Queers: Chicana Body Becoming in Four Acts. 4. “May My Children Always Have Milk and Rice”: Problematizing the Role of Mothers in Childhood Fatness in India. 5. Tracing Fatness Through the Eating Disorder Assemblage. Part II: Exploding Our Expectations 6. Critiquing the DSM-V Narrative of “Obesity” as “Mental Illness”. 7. Taking Up Space in the Doctor’s Office: How My Racialized Fat Body Confronts Medical Discourse. 8. “You’re Just Another Friggin’ Number to Add to the Problem”: Constructing the Racialized (M)other in Contemporary Discourses of Pregnancy Fatness. 9. Embodying the Fat/Trans Intersection. 10. Medicalization, Maternity, and the Materiality of Resistance: “Maternal Obesity” and Experiences of Reproductive Care. Part III: Expanding Our Activisms 11. No Bad Fatties Allowed?: Negotiating the Meaning and Power of the Mutable Body. 12. Oppressive Liberation: BBW Bashes and the Affective Rollercoaster. 13. Thick Sistahs and Heavy Disprivilege: Black Women, Intersectionality, and Weight Stigma. 14. Photographing Fatness: Resisting Assimilation Through Fat Activist Calendars. 15. Queering Fat Activism: A Study in Whiteness. Part IV: Our Gainful Failures
16. Working Towards the Affirmation of Fatness and Impairment. 17. “Hey, Little Fat Kid”: My Impaired, Fat, Hairy, White, Male Body. 18. Reading and Affirming Alternatives in the Academy: Black Fat Queer Femme Embodiment. 19. Fat Camp: A Conversation on YA Fiction, Fat Shame, and Queer Love. 20. Dismantling the Empire: In Defense of Incoherence and Intersectionality. Contributor Biographies. Index.