Weight Stigma & Discrimination

BOOKS

  • Anderson-Frye, E. P., & Brewis, A. (Eds.). (2017). Fat planet: Obesity, culture, and symbolic body capital. University of New Mexico Press.
  • Farrell, A. E. (2011). Fat shame: Stigma and the fat body in American culture. NYU Press.
  • Rinaldi, J., Friedman, M., Lind, E. R. M., Kotow, C., & Tidgwell, T. (Eds.). (2022). The future is fat: Theorizing time in relation to body weight and stigma. Routledge.

CHAPTERS

  • Herndon, A. M. (2023). Public policy and the repercussions of fat stigma on women and children. In A. E. Farrell (Ed.), The contemporary reader of gender and fat studies (pp. 123-139). Taylor & Francis.
  • Ioannoni, K. (2017). Fat blame and fat shame: A failure of maternal responsibility. In M. H. Miller, T. Hager, & R. J. Bromwich (Eds.), Bad mothers: Regulations, representations, and resistance (pp. 157-172). Demeter Press.
  • Major, D., Tomiyama, A. J., & Hunger, J. M. (2018). The negative and bidirectional effects of weight stigma on health. In B. Major, J. F. Dovidio, & B. G. Link (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of stigma, discrimination, and health (pp. 499-520). Oxford University Press.
  • Mansfield, L. (2010). Fit, fat and feminine? The stigmatization of fat women in fitness gyms. In E. Kennedy & P. Markula (Eds.), Women and exercise: The body, health and consumerism (pp. 81-100). Taylor & Francis.
  • Mobley, J. (2014). Fatsploitation: Disgust and the performance of weight loss. In C. E. Forth & A. Leitch (Eds.), Fat: Culture and materiality (pp. 141-157). Bloomsbury.

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