Fat Studies: The Basics - Brossura

Friedman, May

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ISBN 10: 1032879416 ISBN 13: 9781032879413

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2025

Riassunto

Fat Studies: The Basics introduces the reading of fat bodies and the ways that Fat Studies, as a field, has responded to waves of ideas about fat people, their lives, and choices.

Part civil rights discourse and part academic discipline, Fat Studies is a dynamic project that involves contradiction and discussion. In order to understand this field, the book also explores its intersections with race, class, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, migration and beyond. In addition to thinking through terminology and history, this book will aim to unpack three key myths which often guide Fat Studies, showing that:

1. fat is a meaningful site of oppression intersected with other forms of discrimination and hatred
2. to be fat is not a choice (but also that a discussion of choice is itself problematic); and
3. fat cannot be unambiguously correlated with a lack of health

Fat Studies: The Basics is a lively and accessible foundation for students of Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Media Studies, as well as anyone interested in learning more about this emergent field.

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Informazioni sull'autore

May Friedman is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her research explores Fat Studies and unstable identities.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032879416
• ISBN 13: 9781032879413
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 154
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania