Representations & Performance

BOOKS

• LeBlanc, S. S., & Hopper, K. M. (Eds.). (2022). One size does not fit all: Undressing the performance of bodies in popular culture. Lexington Books.
• Mobley, J. (2014). Female bodies on the American stage: Enter fat actress. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Plotz, B. (2021). Fat on film: Gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Bloomsbury Academic.

CHAPTERS

• Bosc, L. (2018). “Where everything round is good”: Exploring and reimagining fatness in fairy-tale media. In P. Greenhill, J. T. Rudy, N. Hamer, & L. Bosc (Eds.), The Routledge companion to media and fairy-tale cultures [eBook]. Routledge.
• Rodier, K. (2022). Taking what you can get and taking care of yourself: Mapping fat women’s sexual agency through television stereotypes. In S. Patrick & M. Rajiva (Eds.), The forgotten victims of sexual violence in film, television and new media: Turning to the margins (pp. 101-122). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Saguy, A. C. (222). Representations of fatness by experts and the media and how this shapes attitudes. In K. Mason & N. Boero (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the sociology of body and embodiment (pp. 105-120). Oxford University Press.
• Snider, S. (2018). On the limitations of the rhetoric of beauty: Embracing ugliness in contemporary fat visual representations. In S. Rodrigues & E. Przybylo (Eds.), On the politics of ugliness (pp. 337-365). Palgrave Macmillan.

ARTICLES

• Blevins, J. R. (2020). “I ain’t you”: Fat and the female body in Flannery O’Connor. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 39(1), 61-83. https://tswl.utulsa.edu/abstract/i-aint-you-fat-and-the-female-body-in-flannery-oconnor/
• Cortese, C. (2022). Judging a book by its cover: the micro activism of fat poetry covers. Fat Studies, 12(3), 543-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2022.2026032
• Donovan, R. (2019). “Must be heavyset”: Casting women, fat stigma, and Broadway bodies. The Journal of American Drama and Theory, 31(3). https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/539/
• DuBose, J. (2022). Fat boys in gym class: An examination of athleticism in young adult novels featuring fat, cisgender male protagonists. Boyhood Studies, 15(1-2). https://doi.org/10.3167/bhs.2022.15010207
• Forth, C. E. (2013). “Nobody loves a fat man”: Masculinity and food in film noir. Men and Masculinities, 16(4), 387-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X13502653
• Fox, R. (2019). Obesity: The Post Mortem: Reviving history and dehumanizing fatness via televised dissection. Women’s Studies, 48(3), 223-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2019.1594812
• Friedman, M. (2017). Mad/Fat/Diary: exploring contemporary feminist thought through My Mad Fat Diary. Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), 1073-1087. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1298145
• Gullage, A. (2012). Fat Monica, fat suits, and Friends: Exploring narratives of fatness. Feminist Media Studies, 14(2), 178-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2012.724026
• Harker, C. M. (2016). Fat male sexuality: The monster in the maze. Sexualities, 19(8), 980-996. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640734
• Heller, D. (2012). Bodies of knowledge: Fat studies, fat stigma and citizenship in U.S. media culture. Feminist Studies in English Literature, 20(3), 157-181. https://oak.go.kr/central/journallist/journaldetail.do?article_seq=19421
• Hernandez, Y. G. (2020). Longing for fat futures: Creating fat utopian performatives in burlesque. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 41(3). https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/781196
• Justin, T. (2021). Fear, freaks, and fat phobia: an examination of how My 600 Lbs Life displays “fat” Black women. Feminist Media Studies, 23(3), 888-901. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1999296
• Kasardo, A. E. (2018). Size as diversity absent from multicultural textbooks. Women & Therapy, 42(1-2), 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2018.1524069
• LeBesco, K. (2008). Situating fat suits: Blackface, drag, and the politics of performance. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 15(2), 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/07407700508571513
• Murray, J. (2020). Representing fat female bodies: A fat studies analysis of selected literary texts. Journal of Literary Studies, 36(2), 99-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2020.1787713
• Suzuki, M. (2013). Fat, disease, and health: Female body and nation in Okamoto Kanoko’s “Nikutai no shinkyoku.” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, 45, 33-49. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/article/539342
• Taylor, A., Mitchell, A., & Rice, C. (2023). Performing fat liberation: Pretty Porky and Pissed Off’s affective politics and archive. Social Sciences, 12(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050270
• Ward, A. E. (2013). Fat bodies/thin critique: Animating and absorbing fat embodiments. S&F Online, 11(3). https://sfonline.barnard.edu/fat-bodiesthin-critique-animating-and-absorbing-fat-embodiments/
• Webb, J. B., Vinoski, E. R., Bonar, A. S., Davies, A. E., & Etzel, L. (2017). Fat is fashionable and fit: A comparative content analysis of Fatspiration and Health at Every Size® Instagram images. Body Image, 22, 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.05.003
• White, F. R. (2013). ‘We’re kind of devolving’: visual tropes of evolution in obesity discourse. Critical Public Health, 23(3), 320-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.777693
• Wilhelm, L., Hartmann, A. s., Becker, J. C., Kisi, M., Waldorf, M., & Vocks, S. (2019). Thin media images decrease women’s body satisfaction: Comparisons between veiled Muslim women, Christian women and atheist women regarding trait and state body image. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01074
• Yingling, T. (2016). Fat futurity. Feral Feminisms, 5, 28-43. https://feralfeminisms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ff_Fat-Futurity_issue5.pdf

DISSERTATIONS & THESES

• Averill, L. (2017). Fattitude the movie: Theory and praxis of creating a documentary that examines fat representation and fat social justice [Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University]. Florida Atlantic University Digital Library. https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A37996
• Kozlowski, M. (2018). Fat girls: Sexuality, transgression, and fatness in popular culture [Doctoral dissertation, University of Kentucky]. UKnowledge. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gws_etds/1/
• Luna, C. (2022). Undisciplined bodies: Race, size and sexuality in U.S. media and culture [Doctoral dissertation, UC Berkeley]. eScholarship. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52p4960j
• Turner, L. M. (2019). “Roll” models: Fat sexuality and its representations in pornographic imagery [Master’s thesis, University of South Florida]. Digital Commons @ University of South Florida. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/7976/

POPULAR PRESS

• Cooper, C. (2007). Headless fatties. Dr. Charlotte Cooper. https://charlottecooper.net/fat/headlessfatties/
• Pausé, C. (2019, October 11). I’ve had enough, thanks: Why I’m not watching Netflix’s Insatiable. The spinoff. https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/11-10-2019/ive-had-enough-thanks-why-im-not-watching-netflixs-insatiable
• Phelps, K. (2016, May 1). Taking up digital space: Power and potentialities of fatness on social media. ASA section on body & embodiment. https://sectionbodyembodiment.weebly.com/blog/taking-up-digital-space-power-and-potentialities-of-fatness-on-social-media
• Wahl, P. (2022, February 25). Want more body positive kid’s books? Start doing better by fat characters, says children’s book illustrator. Bust. https://bust.com/stop-making-fat-phobic-books-children-s-book-illustrator-asks/
• Weissman, S. (2024, March 27). Making space onstage. American Theatre. https://www.americantheatre.org/2024/03/27/making-space-on-stage/
• Wykes, J., & Pausé, C. (2015, March 10). The ‘dancer’s body’ is fat: Force Majeure’s Nothing to Lose. The conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-dancers-body-is-fat-force-majeures-nothing-to-lose-38280