The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies

Part I: Introduction; 1 Connecting Gender and Fat: Feminism, Intersectionality and Stigma; Part II: Discourses of Gender and Fat; 2 Undesirably Different: Hyper(in)visibilty and the Gendered Fat Body; 3 Gendered Fat Bodies as Neoliberal Bodies ; 4 To Have and Not to Hold: Queering Fatness; 5 Antiblackness, Gender and Fat; Part III: Narrating Gender and Fat; 6 Embodied Narration; 7 Fat Stories; Part IV: Historicizing Fatness; 8 The Politics of Fat and Gender in the Ancient World; 9 Historicizing Black Women's Anti-Fatness; Part V: Gender and Fat in Institutions and Public Policy; 10 Public Policy and the Repercussions of Fat Stigma on Women and Children; April Michelle Herndon ; 11 Anti-fat and Anti-Latina Discourse and Policy in the United States; 12 Fatness, Gender, and Academic Achievement in Secondary and Postsecondary Education; Part VI: Gender and Fat in Health and Medicine ; 13 Eating Disorders, Gender, and Fat: Theorizing the Fat Body in Feminist Theories of Eating Disorders; 14 Immovable Subjects, Unstoppable Forces: Bariatric Surgery, Gender, and the Body; 15 Gender, Fat, and "Reproductive" Healthcare: Negotiating Fat Pregnancy in the Context of Eugenics; Part VII: Gender and Fat in Popular Culture and Media ; 16 Sexy, Docile Bodies: The Objectification and Paternalistic Management of Plus-Size Models; 17 Big-Gay Men Entering the Twenty-First Century: Global Perspectives on Fat-Affirming Subcultures and Imagery; 18 From Hattie McDaniel to Queen Latifah: Examining a New Mammy and other Fat Black Women Representations in Contemporary Media ; Part VIII: Gender, Fat and Resistance ; 19 Coming Out as Fat; 20 Fat Community; 21: Belle di Faccia: Fat Activism in Italy; 22 "Your belly is a heap of wheat:" a Torah of Fat Liberation; 23 Don't Forget to Be Yourself; Part IX: In Memoriam Chapter 24 Friend of Cat