The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies

Cat Pausé is Fat Studies scholar at the Institute of Education, Massey University, New Zealand, and the co-editor of Queering Fat Embodiment. Sonya Renee Taylor is an International award-winning writer and performer, published author, and founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, an international digital media and education company committed to radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool of social justice.

1. Fattening up scholarship PART 1: Defining fat 2. "Am I fat?" 3. Quantifying or contributing to antifat attitudes? 4. Language, fat and causation 5. My life is intersectional, so my coaching has to be: Here is why this is a good thing PART 2: Theorizing fatness 6. Feminism and fat 7. Big, fat, Greek modernities: On fatness, Western imperatives and modern Greek culture 8. Does that mean my body must always be a source of pain? Sexual violence, trauma and agency in Argentinian fat activist spaces 9. Fatness and consequences of neoliberalism 10. Fat and trans: Towards a new theorization of gender in Fat Studies 11. Fatness and disability: Law, identity, co-constructions, and future directions PART 3: Fat in the institution 12. Fat in the media 13. Being fat in a thin world: The politics of fashion 14. Fattening education: An invitation to the nascent field of fat pedagogy 15. Fatness, discrimination and law: An international perspective 16. Pregnancy, parenting and the challenge of fatness 17. Fat Studies and public health PART 4: Living fat 18. Reclaiming voices from stigma: Fat autoethnography as a consciously political act 19. Save the whales: An examination of the relationship between academics/professionals and fat activists 20. Fat hatred and body respect: The curious case of Iceland 21. Desirability as access: Navigating life at the intersection of fat, Black, dark and female 22. The impact of being a fat Chinese woman in Hong Kong 23. Surviving and thriving while fat 24. Review of scholarship on fat-gay men PART 5: Fat disruptions 25. Genealogies of excess: Towards a decolonial Fat Studies 26. When you are already dead: Black fat being as afrofuturism 27. TransFat 28. Lesbians and fat 29. What’s queer about Fat Studies now? A critical exploration of queer/ing fatness