ABSTRACT
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.
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
