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Fat Oppression around the World: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary, and Methodological Innovations - Hardcover

 
9780367746643: Fat Oppression around the World: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary, and Methodological Innovations
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367746646 ISBN 13: 9780367746643
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

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 women’s 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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367746646
ISBN 13 
9780367746643
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
134
Editor
Prohaska Ariane, Gailey Jeannine A.