1st Edition
Fat Oppression around the World Intersectional, Interdisciplinary, and Methodological Innovations
Introduction - Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovations
Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey
1. Crafting weight stigma in slimming classes: A case study in Ireland
Jacqueline O’Toole
2. Understanding fatness: Jamaican women’s constructions of health
Claudia Barned and Kieran O’Doherty
3. Frozen: A fat tale of immigration
Cat Pausé
4. Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny’s Life Change
Anna Puhakka
5. "You will face discrimination": Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession
Jennifer Lee
6. Rock and rolls: Exploring body positivity at Girls Rock Camp
Trisha L. Crawshaw
7. Mapping the circulation of fat hatred
Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind
Biography
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.
