Fat Studies: The Basics

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-87941-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 280 g

Reihe: The Basics

Fat Studies: The Basics introduces the reading of fat bodies and the ways that Fat Studies, as a field, has responded to waves of ideas about fat people, their lives, and choices.

Part civil rights discourse and part academic discipline, Fat Studies is a dynamic project that involves contradiction and discussion. In order to understand this field, the book also explores its intersections with race, class, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, migration and beyond. In addition to thinking through terminology and history, this book will aim to unpack three key myths which often guide Fat Studies, showing that:

- fat is a meaningful site of oppression intersected with other forms of discrimination and hatred

- to be fat is not a choice (but also that a discussion of choice is itself problematic); and

- fat cannot be unambiguously correlated with a lack of health

Fat Studies: The Basics is a lively and accessible foundation for students of Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Media Studies, as well as anyone interested in learning more about this emergent field.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, May

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. How Fat Hurts 3. Choosing Fat? 4. Toward Death and Debility? 5. Fat and Popular Culture 6. Intersecting Fat 7. Fat Activisms and Fat Revolution

Über Autor(innen)

May Friedman is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her research explores Fat Studies and unstable identities.