TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rothblum,Esther D.
AU  - Solovay,Sondra
TI  - The fat studies reader
SN  - 9780814776308 (cl : alk. paper)
AV  - RA645.O23 F55 2009
U1  - 362.196/398 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Unviersity Press
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Overweight persons
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword : fat studies: an invitation to revolution; Marilyn Wann --; Introduction; Sandra Solovay and Esther Rothblum --; The inner corset : a brief history of fat in the United States; Laura Fraser --; Fattening queer history : where does fat history go from here?; Elena Levy-Navarro --; Does social class explain the connection between weight and health?; Paul Ernsberger --; Is "permanent weight loss" an oxymoron? The statistics on weight loss and the national weight control registry; Glenn Gaesser --; What is "health at every size"?; Deb Burgard --; 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 --; Quest for a cause: the fat gene, the gay gene, and the new eugenics; Kathleen LeBesco --; Prescription for harm : diet industry influence, public health policy, and the "obesity epidemic"; Pat Lyons --; Public fat : Canadian provincial governments and fat on the web; Laura Jennings --; That remains to be said : disappeared feminist discourses on fat in dietetic theory and practice; Lucy Aphramor and Jacqui Gingras --; Fatness (in)visible : polycystic ovarian syndrome and the rhetoric of normative femininity; Christina Fisanick --; Fat kids, working moms, and the "epidemic of obesity" : race, class, and mother blame; Natalie Boero --; Fat youth as common targets for bullying; Jacqueline Weinstock and Michelle Krehbiel --; Bon bon fatty girl : a qualitative exploration of weight bias in Singapore; Maho Isono, Patti Lou Watkins, and Lee Ee Lian --; Part-time fatso; S. Bear Bergman --; Double stigma : fat men and their male admirers; Nathaniel C. Pyle and Michael I. Loewy --; The shape of abuse : fat oppression as a form of violence against women; Tracy Royce --; Fat women as "easy targets" : achieving masculinity through hogging; Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine Gailey --; No apology : shared struggles in fat and transgender law; Dylan Vade and Sondra Solovay --; Access to the sky : airplane seats and fat bodies as contested spaces; Joyce L. Huff --; Neoliberalism and the constitution of contemporary bodies; Julie Guthman --; Sitting pretty : fat bodies, classroom desks, and academic excess; Ashley Hetrick and Derek Attig --; Stigma threat and the fat professor: reducing student prejudice in the classroom; Elena Andrea Escalera --; Fat stories in the classroom : what and how are they teaching about us?; Susan Koppelman --; Fat girls and size queens : alternative publications and the visualizing of fat and queer eroto-politics in contemporary American culture; Stefanie Snider --; Fat girls need fiction; Susan Stinson --; Fat heroines in chick-lit: gateway to acceptance in the mainstream?; Lara Frater --; The fat of the (border)land : food, flesh, and Hispanic masculinity in Willa Cather's 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'; Julia McCrossin --; Placing fat women on center stage; JuliaGrace Jester --; "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 --; The Roseanne Benedict Arnolds: how fat women are betrayed by their celebrity icons; Beth Bernstein and Matilda St. John --; Jiggle in my walk: the iconic power of the "big butt" in American pop culture; Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino --; Seeing through the layers : fat suits and thin bodies in 'the Nutty Professor' and 'Shallow Hal'; Katharina R. Mendoza --; Controlling the body : media representations, body size, and self-discipline; Dina Giovanelli and Stephen Ostertag --; "I'm allowed to be a sexual being" : the distinctive social conditions of the fat burlesque stage; D. Lacy Asbill --; Embodying fat liberation; Heather McAllister --; Not Jane Fonda : aerobics for fat women only; Jenny Ellison --; Exorcising the exercise myth: creating women of substance; Dana Schuster and Lisa Tealer --; Maybe it should be called fat American studies; Charlotte Cooper --; Are we ready to throw our weight around? Fat studies and political activism; Deb Burgard, Elana Dykewomon, Esther Rothblum, and Pattie Thomas --; Appendix A : fat liberation manifesto, November 1973; Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran
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