The Body

BOOKS

  • Czerniawski, A. M. (2015). Fashioning fat: Inside plus-size modeling. NYU Press.
  • Harjunen, H. (2016). Neoliberal bodies and the gendered fat body. Routledge.
  • LeBesco, K. A. (2003). Revolting bodies?: The struggle to redefine fat identity. University of Massachusetts Press.
  • Martschukat, J. (2021). The age of fitness: How the body came to symbolize success and achievement. (A. Skinner, Trans.). Polity.
  • Murray, S. (2008). The ‘fat’ female body. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Unnithan-Kumar, M., & Tremayne, S. (2011). Fatness and the maternal body: Women’s experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy. Berghahn Books.
  • Volonté, P. (2022). Fat fashion: The thin ideal and the segregation of plus-size bodies. Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

CHAPTERS

  • Bordo, S. (2004). Reading the slender body. In S. Bordo, Unbearable weight: Feminism, western culture, and the body (pp. 185-212). University of California Press.
  • Counihan, C. M. (1999). Body and power in women’s experiences of reproduction in the United States. In C. M. Counihan, The anthropology of food and body (pp. 195-214). Routledge.
  • Huzjak, M. (2023). Fat women have bodies (two): The contradictions of fatness. In E. Rees (Ed.), The Routledge companion to gender, sexuality, and culture (pp. 121-129). Routledge.
  • Parker, G. (2022). Weighing in: Reimagining fat reproductive embodiment through the lens of sexual and reproductive justice. In T. Morison & J. M. J. Mavuso (Eds.), Sexual and reproductive justice: From the margins to the centre (pp. 121-137). Lexington Books.
  • Talukdar, J. (2020). Feeding and fasting bodies. In K. Mason & N. Boero (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the sociology of body and embodiment (pp. 257-272). Oxford University Press.
  • Tischner, I., & Malson, H. (2011). ‘You can’t be supersized?’ Exploring femininities, body size and control within the obesity terrain. In E. Rich, L. F. Monaghan, & L. Aphramor (Eds.), Debating obesity: Critical perspectives (pp. 90-114). Palgrave Macmillan.

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