Fat Oppression around the World
This book offers cutting-edge, intersectional, and interdisciplinary research in the blossoming field of fat studies. The aim is to generate discussion about the complexity of fat oppression as a phenomenon and social force that permeates interactions both at an institutional and interpersonal level, impacting the lived experiences of fat people.
Each chapter has been carefully selected to create a space to showcase the engaging intersectional and interdisciplinary fat-studies scholarship that is taking place globally. This engaging book will take the reader around the world by examining: weight-loss classes in Ireland, Jamaican womens views of health and fatness, the difficulties of immigrating while fat to New Zealand, fat activism in Finnish media, being fat and pregnant in Australia, a girls camp in the United States, and the experiences of fat hatred felt by queer fat women in Canada. This book will inspire fat-studies scholars globally to incorporate intersectional approaches and qualitative methods in future work.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.
Ariane Prohaska is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include gender, bodies, fat studies, and disaster sociology. She has recently published in Fat Studies, Critical Policy Studies, and International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.
Jeannine A. Gailey is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University. She studies gender, bodies, fat studies, and sexualities. Her recent research has appeared in Fat Studies, Feminism & Psychology, and Qualitative Research. Her monograph, The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman, was published in 2014.
Fat Oppression around the World
Intersectional, Interdisciplinary, and Methodological Innovations
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Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey
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Contents
Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey
Jacqueline OToole
Claudia Barned and Kieran ODoherty
Cat Paus
Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jennys Life Change
Anna Puhakka
Jennifer Lee
Trisha L. Crawshaw
Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind
The following chapters were originally published in two issues of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society. When citing this material, please use the original citations and page numbering for each article, as follows:
Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovations
Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey
Fat Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2019), pp. 19
Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in Ireland
Jacqueline OToole
Fat Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1024
Understanding fatness: Jamaican womens constructions of health
Claudia Barned and Kieran ODoherty
Fat Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2019), pp. 2543
Frozen: A fat tale of immigration
Cat Paus
Fat Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2019), pp. 4459
Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jennys Life Change
Anna Puhakka
Fat Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2019), pp. 6074
You will face discrimination: Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession
Jennifer Lee
Fat Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2020), pp. 116
Rock and Rolls: Exploring Body Positivity at Girls Rock Camp
Trisha L. Crawshaw
Fat Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1736
Mapping the circulation of fat hatred
Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind
Fat Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2020), pp. 3750
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Claudia Barned, Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montral, Montral, Quebec, Canada.
Trisha L. Crawshaw, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.
Jeannine A. Gailey, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Crystal Kotow, PhD, Centre for Academic Excellence, St. Clair College, Windsor, ON, Canada.
Jennifer Lee, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
Emma Lind
