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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.
Bishop, K., Gruys, K., & Evans, M. (2018). Sized out: Women, clothing size, and inequality. Gender & Society, 32(2), 180-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243218756010
Colls, R. (2011). BodiesTouchingBodies: Jenny Saville’s over-life-sized paintings and the ‘morpho-logics’ of fat, female bodies. Gender, Place & Culture, 19(2), 175-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2011.573143
Davies, A., & Neustifter, R. (2022). Fat fuckers and fat fucking: a feminine ethic of care in sex therapy. Psychology & Sexuality, 14(1), 294-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2022.2109988
Evans, B., Bias, S., & Colls, R. (2021). The dys-appearing fat body: Bodily intensities and fatphobic sociomaterialities when flying while fat. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6), 1816-1832. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1866485
Kwan, S. (2010). Navigating public spaces: Gender, race, and body privilege in everyday life. Feminist Formations, 22(2), 144-166. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/391736
Kyrölä, K., & Harjunen, H. (2017). Phantom/liminal fat and feminist theories of the body. Feminist Theory, 18(2), 99-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700035
Lazoroska, D. (2019). Vulnerable agency: fat, bodies and their making among youth in a Brazilian favela. Journal of Gender Studies, 29(5), 547-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1693986
Nash, M. (2012). Weighty matters: Negotiating ‘fatness’ and ‘in-betweenness’ in early pregnancy. Feminism & Psychology, 22(3), 307-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353512445361
Norman, M. E. (2013). “Dere’s not just one kind of fat”: Embodying the “skinny”-self through constructions of the fat masculine other. Men and Masculinities, 16(4), 407-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X13502662
Tetreault, E. (2021). Sequins and survival: Queer bodily generosity during COVID-19. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 8(3), 161-168. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/article/852988
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van Amsterdam, N., van Eck, D., & Kjær, K. M. (2022). On (not) fitting in: Fat embodiment, affect and organizational materials as differentiating agents. Organization Studies, 44(4), 593-612. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406221074162
Weber, B. R. (2012). Stark raving fat: Celebrity, cellulite, and the sliding scale of sanity. Feminism & Psychology, 22(3), 344-359. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353512445355
Welsh, T. L. (2011). Healthism and the bodies of women: Pleasure and discipline in the war against obesity. Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 1(1), 33-48. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol1/iss1/13/
POPULAR PRESS
Benedict, R. S. (2021, February 24). Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny: Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it. Blood knife. https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/