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The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies
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Book Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Fattening up scholarship
Cat Pausé and Sonya Renee Taylor
PART 1: Defining fat
2. "Am I fat?"
Darci L. Thoune
3. Quantifying or contributing to antifat attitudes?
Patricia Cain, Ngaire Donaghue, and Graeme Ditchburn
4. Language, fat and causation
Kimberly Dark
5. My life is intersectional, so my coaching has to be: Here is why this is a good thing
Tiana A. Dodson
PART 2: Theorizing fatness
6. Feminism and fat
Amy Erdman Farrell
7. Big, fat, Greek modernities: On fatness, Western imperatives and modern Greek culture
Sofia Apostolidou
8. Does that mean my body must always be a source of pain? Sexual violence, trauma and agency in Argentinian fat activist spaces
Laura Contrera
9. Fatness and consequences of neoliberalism
Hannele Harjunen
10. Fat and trans: Towards a new theorization of gender in Fat Studies
Francis Ray White
11. Fatness and disability: Law, identity, co-constructions, and future directions
April Herndon
PART 3: Fat in the institution
12. Fat in the media
Katariina Kyrölä
13. Being fat in a thin world: The politics of fashion
Amena Azeez
14. Fattening education: An invitation to the nascent field of fat pedagogy
Erin Cameron and Constance Russell
15. Fatness, discrimination and law: An international perspective
Stephanie von Liebenstein
16. Pregnancy, parenting and the challenge of fatness
May Friedman
17. Fat Studies and public health
Natalie Ingraham
PART 4: Living fat
18. Reclaiming voices from stigma: Fat autoethnography as a consciously political act
Jenny Lee and Emily McAvan
19. Save the whales: An examination of the relationship between academics/professionals and fat activists
Kath Read
20. Fat hatred and body respect: The curious case of Iceland
Tara Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir
21. Desirability as access: Navigating life at the intersection of fat, Black, dark and female
Nomonde Mxhalisa
22. The impact of being a fat Chinese woman in Hong Kong
Bertha Chan Hiu Yau
23. Surviving and thriving while fat
Sonalee Rashatwar
24. Review of scholarship on fat-gay men
Jason Whitesel
PART 5: Fat disruptions
25. Genealogies of excess: Towards a decolonial Fat Studies
Athia N. Choudhury
26. When you are already dead: Black fat being as afrofuturism
Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford
27. TransFat
Sam Orchard
28. Lesbians and fat
Esther D. Rothblum
29. What’s queer about Fat Studies now? A critical exploration of queer/ing fatness
Allison Taylor
Editor(s)
Biography
Cat Pausé is Fat Studies scholar at the Institute of Education, Massey University, New Zealand, and the co-editor of Queering Fat Embodiment.
Sonya Renee Taylor is an International award-winning writer and performer, published author, and founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, an international digital media and education company committed to radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool of social justice.
Reviews
"...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