The Fat Studies Reader

Contents......Page 6
Foreword: Fat Studies: An Invitation to Revolution......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 28
Introduction......Page 30
PART I: WHAT IS FAT STUDIES?: THE SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF FATNESS......Page 38
1. The Inner Corset: A Brief History of Fat in the United States......Page 40
2. Fattening Queer History: Where Does Fat History Go from Here?......Page 44
PART II: FAT STUDIES IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE......Page 52
3. Does Social Class Explain the Connection Between Weight and Health?......Page 54
4. Is “Permanent Weight Loss” an Oxymoron?: The Statistics on Weight Loss and the National Weight Control Registry......Page 66
5. What Is “Health at Every Size”?......Page 71
6. Widening the Dialogue to Narrow the Gap in Health Disparities: Approaches to Fat Black Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Promotion......Page 83
7. Quest for a Cause: The Fat Gene, the Gay Gene, and the New Eugenics......Page 94
8. Prescription for Harm: Diet Industry Influence, Public Health Policy, and the “Obesity Epidemic”......Page 104
9. Public Fat: Canadian Provincial Governments and Fat on the Web......Page 117
10. That Remains to Be Said: Disappeared Feminist Discourses on Fat in Dietetic Theory and Practice......Page 126
11. Fatness (In)visible: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Rhetoric of Normative Femininity......Page 135
PART III: FATNESS AS SOCIAL INEQUALITY......Page 140
12. Fat Kids, Working Moms, and the “Epidemic of Obesity”: Race, Class, and Mother Blame......Page 142
13. Fat Youth as Common Targets for Bullying......Page 149
14. Bon Bon Fatty Girl: A Qualitative Exploration of Weight Bias in Singapore......Page 156
15. Part-Time Fatso......Page 168
16. Double Stigma: Fat Men and Their Male Admirers......Page 172
17. The Shape of Abuse: Fat Oppression as a Form of Violence Against Women......Page 180
18. Fat Women as “Easy Targets”: Achieving Masculinity Through Hogging......Page 187
19. No Apology: Shared Struggles in Fat and Transgender Law......Page 196
20. Access to the Sky: Airplane Seats and Fat Bodies as Contested Spaces......Page 205
21. Neoliberalism and the Constitution of Contemporary Bodies......Page 216
22. Sitting Pretty: Fat Bodies, Classroom Desks, and Academic Excess......Page 226
23. Stigma Threat and the Fat Professor: Reducing Student Prejudice in the Classroom......Page 234
24. Fat Stories in the Classroom: What and How Are They Teaching About Us?......Page 242
PART IV: SIZE-ISM IN POPULAR CULTURE AND LITERATURE......Page 250
25. Fat Girls and Size Queens: Alternative Publications and the Visualizing of Fat and Queer Eroto-politics in Contemporary American Culture......Page 252
26. Fat Girls Need Fiction......Page 260
27. Fat Heroines in Chick-Lit: Gateway to Acceptance in the Mainstream?......Page 264
28. The Fat of the (Border)land: Food, Flesh, and Hispanic Masculinity in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop......Page 270
29. Placing Fat Women on Center Stage......Page 278
30. “The White Man’s Burden”: Female Sexuality, Tourist Postcards, and the Place of the Fat Woman in Early 20th-Century U.S. Culture......Page 285
31. The Roseanne Benedict Arnolds: How Fat Women Are Betrayed by Their Celebrity Icons......Page 292
32. Jiggle in My Walk: The Iconic Power of the “Big Butt” in American Pop Culture......Page 300
33. Seeing Through the Layers: Fat Suits and Thin Bodies in The Nutty Professor and Shallow Hal......Page 309
34. Controlling the Body: Media Representations, Body Size, and Self-Discipline......Page 318
PART V: EMBODYING AND EMBRACING FATNESS......Page 326
35. “I’m Allowed to Be a Sexual Being”: The Distinctive Social Conditions of the Fat Burlesque Stage......Page 328
36. Embodying Fat Liberation......Page 334
37. Not Jane Fonda: Aerobics for Fat Women Only......Page 341
38. Exorcising the Exercise Myth: Creating Women of Substance......Page 349
PART VI: STARTING THE REVOLUTION......Page 354
39. Maybe It Should Be Called Fat American Studies......Page 356
40. Are We Ready to Throw Our Weight Around? Fat Studies and Political Activism......Page 363
Appendix A: Fat Liberation Manifesto, November 1973......Page 370
Appendix B: Legal Briefs......Page 372
About the Contributors......Page 380
B......Page 388
E......Page 389
G......Page 390
L......Page 391
P......Page 392
U......Page 393
Z......Page 394