Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies

<p><em>The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies</em> is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.</p><p>Comprising over 20 chapters from a range of diverse and international contributors the <em>Reader</em> is structured around the following key themes: theorizing gender and fat; narrating gender and fat; historicizing gender and fat; institutions and public policy; health and medicine; popular culture and media; and resistance. It is an intersectional collection highlighting the ways that gender and fat always exist in connection with multiple other structures forms of oppression and identities including race ethnicity sexualities age nationalities disabilities religion and class.</p><p><em>The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies</em> is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in Gender Studies Sexuality Studies Sociology Body Studies Cultural Studies Psychology and Health.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.</p>