Fat

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
	The emergence of the ‘obesity epidemic’
	Critical weight studies/fat studies
	Constructing ‘obesity’
	Challenging ‘obesity’
	Chapter outline
2. Thinking about fat: A review of different perspectives
	The anti-obesity perspective
	Critical perspectives
3. Governing fat bodies
	Medical power and the ‘obesity epidemic’
	The social construction of ‘overweight’ and ‘obesity’
	The BMI and defining ‘obesity’
	Biopolitics and personal responsibility for body weight
	The pedagogy of disgust
	Governing children’s bodies
	The family as site of intervention
	Minority groups and weight control
	Digitized self-monitoring
4. The transgressive fat body
	Fatness and morality
	Fat bodies in the popular media
	Fatness, disgust, abjection
	Femininities, fluidities, fatness
	Spoilt masculinities and fat embodiment
5. Being/feeling fat
	Fat discrimination
	Fatness and the commodified body
	Space, place and fat bodies
	Fatness: a disability?
6. Reframing fat: Fat activism and size acceptance politics
	Fat, out and proud
	Naturally fat?
	Ethics and feminist fat politics
	Critiques of fat activism and body positivism
	Ways forward
	Concluding comments
Glossary
Bibliography
Index