QUEERING FAT EMBODIMENT

Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitima cy to what can be described as fat-phobia. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and commodifi cation of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an alleged obesity epidemic, this volume brings together the latest scholarsh ip from various critical disciplines to challenge existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment. Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is...[Llegir més]