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.

"...the scholars of The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies take their readers by the hand and show them where they can find a place of their own within a necessary and essential field of study and activism. In adding this text to the fat canon, I believe, along with Pausé and Taylor, that the 'future of Fat Studies is very fat' (13)." - Ashlen Cheyenne Duhon, Fat Studies

• 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