The fat studies reader / edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay ; foreword by Marilyn Wann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothblum, Esther D.

Solovay, Sondra, 1970-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity--Social aspects.

Obesity.

Overweight persons.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Unviersity Press, [2009]

Contents:

Part I What is Fat Studies? The Social and Historical Construction of Fatness

1 The Inner Corset: A Brief History of Fat in the United States / Laura Fraser 11

2 Fattening Queer History: Where Does Fat History Go from Here? / Elena Levy-Navarro 15

Part II Fat Studies in Health and Medicine

3 Does Social Class Explain the Connection Between Weight and Health? / Paul Ernsberger 25

4 Is "Permanent Weight Loss" an Oxymoron? The Statistics on Weight Loss and the National Weight Control Registry / Glenn Gaesser 37

5 What Is "Health at Every Size"? / Deb Burgard 41

6 Widening the Dialogue to Narrow the Gap in Health Disparities: Approaches to Fat Black Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Promotion / Bianca D. M. Wilson 54

7 Quest for a Cause: The Fat Gene, the Gay Gene, and the New Eugenics / Kathleen LeBesco 65

8 Prescription for Harm: Diet Industry Influence, Public Health Policy, and the "Obesity Epidemic" / Pat Lyons 75

9 Public Fat: Canadian Provincial Governments and Fat on the Web / Laura Jennings 88

10 That Remains to Be Said: Disappeared Feminist Discourses on Fat in Dietetic Theory and Practice / Lucy Aphramor, Jacqui Gingras 97

11 Fatness (In)visible: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Rhetoric of Normative Femininity / Christina Fisanick 106

Part III Fatness as Social Inequality

12 Fat Kids, Working Moms, and the "Epidemic of Obesity": Race, Class, and Mother Blame / Natalie Boero 113

13 Fat Youth as Common Targets for Bullying / Jacqueline Weinstock, Michelle Krehbiel 120

14 Bon Bon Fatty Girl: A Qualitative Exploration of Weight Bias in Singapore / Maho Isono, Patti Lou Watkins, Lee Ee Lian 127

15 Part-Time Fatso / S. Bear Bergman 139

16 Double Stigma: Fat Men and Their Male Admirers / Nathaniel C. Pyle, Michael I. Loewy 143

17 The Shape of Abuse: Fat Oppression as a Form of Violence Against Women / Tracy Payee 151

18 Fat Women as "Easy Targets": Achieving Masculinity Through Hogging / Ariane Prohaska, Jeannine Gailey 158

19 No Apology: Shared Struggles in Fat and Transgender Law / Dylan Vade, Sondra Solovay 167

20 Access to the Sky: Airplane Seats and Fat Bodies as Contested Spaces / Joyce L. Huff 176

21 Neoliberalism and the Constitution of Contemporary Bodies / Julie Guthtnan 187

22 Sitting Pretty: Fat Bodies, Classroom Desks, and Academic Excess / Ashley Hetrick, Derek Attig 197

23 Stigma Threat and the Fat Professor: Reducing Student Prejudice in the Classroom / Elena Andrea Escalera 205

24 Fat Stories in the Classroom: What and How Are They Teaching About Us? / Susan Koppelman 213

Part IV Size-ISM in Popular Culture and Literature

25 Fat Girls and Size Queens: Alternative Publications and the Visualizing of Fat and Queer Eroto-politics in Contemporary American Culture / Stefanie Snider 223

26 Fat Girls Need Fiction / Susan Stinson 231

27 Fat Heroines in Chick-Lit: Gateway to Acceptance in the Mainstream? / Lam Frater 235

28 The Fat of the (Border)land: Food, Flesh, and Hispanic Masculinity in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop / Julia McCrossin 241

29 Placing Fat Women on Center Stage / JuliaGrace Jester 249

30 "The White Man's Burden": Female Sexuality, Tourist Postcards, and the Place of the Fat Woman in Early 20th-century U.S. Culture / Amy Farrell 256

31 The Roseanne Benedict Arnolds: How Fat Women Are Betrayed by Their Celebrity Icons / Beth Bernstein, Matilda St. John 263

32 Jiggle in My Walk: The Iconic Power of the "Big Butt" in American Pop Culture / Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino 271

33 Seeing Through the Layers: Fat Suits and Thin Bodies in The Nutty Professor and Shallow Hal / Katharina R. Mendoza 280

34 Controlling the Body: Media Representations, Body Size, and Self-Discipline / Dina Giovanelli, Stephen Ostertag 289

Part V Embodying and Embracing Fatness

35 "I'm Allowed to Be a Sexual Being": The Distinctive Social Conditions of the Fat Burlesque Stage / D. Lacy Asbill 299

36 Embodying Fat Liberation / Heather McAllister 305

37 Not Jane Fonda: Aerobics for Fat Women Only / Jenny Ellison 312

38 Exorcising the Exercise Myth: Creating Women of Substance / Dana Schuster, Lisa Tealer 320

Part VI Starting the Revolution

39 Maybe It Should Be Called Fat American Studies / Charlotte Cooper 327

40 Are We Ready to Throw Our Weight Around? Fat Studies and Political Activism / Deb Burgard, Elana Dykewomon, Esther Rothblum, Pattie Thomas 334.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780814776308

0814776302

9780814776315

0814776310

OCLC:

320434071

Publisher Number:

99936085242