The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
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
Index