Fat Studies & Pedagogies

BOOKS

  • Braziel, J. E., & LeBesco, K. (Eds.). (2001). Bodies out of bounds: Fatness and transgression. University of California Press.
  • Cameron, E., & Russell, C. (Eds.). (2016). The fat pedagogy reader. Peter Lang.
  • Farrell, A. E. (Ed). (2023). The contemporary reader of gender and fat studies. Taylor & Francis.
  • Friedman, M., Rice, C., & Rinaldi, J. (Eds.). (2019). Thickening fat: Fat bodies, intersectionality, and social justice. Routledge.
  • Fuller, C. (2017). The fat lady sings: A psychological exploration of the cultural fat complex and its effects. Karnac.
  • Gailey, J. A. (2014). The hyper(in)visible fat woman: Weight and gender discourse in contemporary society. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hester, H., & Walters, C. (Eds.). (2015). Fat sex: New directions in theory and activism. Routledge.
  • Kulick, D., & Meneley, A. (Eds.). (2005). Fat: The anthropology of an obsession. Penguin.
  • Kwan, S., & Graves, J. (2013). Framing fat: Competing constructions in contemporary culture. Rutgers University Press.
  • Levy-Navarro, E. (Ed.). (2010). Historicizing fat in Anglo-American culture. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Lupton, D. (2018). Fat. Routledge.
  • Naylor, A. K., & Tomrley, C. (Eds.). Fat studies in the UK. Raw Nerve Books.
  • Pausé, C., & Taylor, S. R. (Eds.). (2021). The Routledge international handbook of fat studies. Routledge.
  • Prohaska, A., & Gailey, J. A. (Eds.). (2022). Fat oppression around the world. Routledge.
  • Rothblum, E., & Solovay, S. (Eds.). (2009). The fat studies reader. NYU Press.
  • Strings, S. (2019). Fearing the Black body: The racial origins of fat phobia. NYU Press.
  • Taylor, A., Ioannoni, K., Bahra, R. A., Evans, C., Scrivener, A., & Friedman, M. (Eds.). (2023). Fat studies in Canada: (Re)mapping the field. Inanna Publications & Education Inc.
  • Tischner, I. (2012). Fat lives: A feminist psychological exploration. Taylor & Francis Group.

CHAPTERS

  • Bordo, S. (2004). Hunger as ideology. In S. Bordo, Unbearable weight: Feminism, western culture, and the body (pp. 99-138). University of California Press.
  • Boon, S. (2021). It’s not over until the fat professor sings: Teaching fat studies in the ‘fattest province in Canada.’ In B. Hughes, C. Dann, M. D. Ravenscroft, & P. G. Nixon (Eds.), Talking bodies III: Transformations, movements and expressions (pp. 75-95). University of Chester Press.
  • Dark, K. (2021). Fat pedagogy in the yoga class. In K. Dark, Damaged like me: essays on love, harm, and transformation (pp. 123-137). AK Press.
  • Fahs, B. (2023). Transformation pedagogies of the abject body: An argument for radical fat pedagogies. In B. Ahad-Legardy & O. A. Poon (Eds.), Difficult subjects: Insights and strategies for teaching about races, sexuality, and gender [eBook]. Routledge.
  • LeBesco, K. (2011). Epistemologies of fatness: The political contours of embodiment in fat studies. In M. J. Casper & P. Currah (Eds.), Corpus: An interdisciplinary reader on bodies and knowledge, (pp. 95-108). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Pausé, C. (2021). Devil pray: Fat studies in an obesity research world. In M. Gard, D. Powell, & J. Tenorio (Eds.), Routledge handbook of critical obesity studies [eBook]. Routledge.
  • Russell, C. (2020). Fat pedagogy and the disruption of weight-based oppression: toward the flourishing of all bodies. In S. R. Steinberg & B. Down (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of critical pedagogies (pp. 1516-1531). SAGE Publications.

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