This book offers cutting-edge, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research in the blossoming field of fat studies. The aim is to generate discussion about the complexity of fat oppression as a phenomenon and social force that impacts the lived experiences of fat people.
This book offers cutting-edge, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research in the blossoming field of fat studies. The aim is to generate discussion about the complexity of fat oppression as a phenomenon and social force that impacts the lived experiences of fat people.
Ariane Prohaska is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include gender, bodies, fat studies, and disaster sociology. She has recently published in Fat Studies, Critical Policy Studies, and International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. Jeannine A. Gailey is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University. She studies gender, bodies, fat studies, and sexualities. Her recent research has appeared in Fat Studies, Feminism & Psychology, and Qualitative Research. Her monograph, The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman, was published in 2014.
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Introduction - Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovations Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey 1. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in Ireland Jacqueline O'Toole 2. Understanding fatness: Jamaican women's constructions of health Claudia Barned and Kieran O'Doherty 3. Frozen: A fat tale of immigration Cat Pausé 4. Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny's Life Change Anna Puhakka 5. "You will face discrimination": Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession Jennifer Lee 6. Rock and rolls: Exploring body positivity at Girls Rock Camp Trisha L. Crawshaw 7. Mapping the circulation of fat hatred Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind
Introduction - Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovations Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey 1. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in Ireland Jacqueline O'Toole 2. Understanding fatness: Jamaican women's constructions of health Claudia Barned and Kieran O'Doherty 3. Frozen: A fat tale of immigration Cat Pausé 4. Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny's Life Change Anna Puhakka 5. "You will face discrimination": Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession Jennifer Lee 6. Rock and rolls: Exploring body positivity at Girls Rock Camp Trisha L. Crawshaw 7. Mapping the circulation of fat hatred Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind
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