
Fat Studies in Canada
(Re)Mapping the Field
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Fat Studies in Canada
(Re)Mapping the Field
About this book
Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field re-envisions what it means to be fat in the colonial project known as Canada, exploring the unique ways that fat studies theorists, academics, artists, and activists are troubling and thickening existing fat studies literature.
Weaving together academic articles and alternative forms of narration, including visual art and poetry, this edited collection captures multi-dimensional experiences of being fat in Canada. Together, the chapters explore the subject of fat oppression as it acts upon individuals and collectives, unpacking how fat bodies at various intersections of gender, sexuality, racialization, disability, neurodivergence, and other axes of embodiment have been understood, both historically and within contemporary Canada.
Taking a critical approach to dominant framings of fatness, particularly those linked to an "obesity epidemic, " Fat Studies in Canada aims to interrogate and dismantle systemic fat oppression by (re)centering and (re)valuing fat voices and epistemologies. Ultimately, the volume introduces new ways of celebrating fatness and fat life in Northern Turtle Island.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Our Fat Liminal Grounds
- Structural Fat Oppression
- Mappings, Methods, and Innovations
- Fattening Popular Culture
- Medical Encounters
- Desiring Fatness
- Alternative Frameworks and Imaginings
- Afterword
- Contributors