Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Introduction

Connecting gender and fat : feminism, intersectionality, and stigma 3 / Amy Erdman Farrell

Part 2. Discourses of gender and fat

Undesirably different : hyper(in)visibility and the gendered fat body / Jeannine a. Gailey

Gendered fat bodies as neoliberal bodies / Hannele harjunen

To have and not to hold: queering fatness / Cat Pausé

Antiblackness, gender, and fat / Da’shaun l. Harrison

Part 3. Narrating gender and fat

Embodied narration / Kimberly Dark

Fat stories / Susan Stinson

Part 4. Historicizing fatness

The politics of fat and gender in the ancient world / Susan e. Hill

Historicizing black women’s anti-fatness / Ava Purkiss

Part 5. Gender and fat in institutions and public policy

Public policy and the repercussions of fat stigma on women and children / April Michelle Herndon

Histories of excess : overlaps between anti-fat and anti-Latina public discourse / E. Cassandra Dame-Griff

Fatness, gender, and academic achievement in secondary and postsecondary education / Heather A. Brown

Part 6. Gender and fat in health and medicine

Eating disorders, gender, and fat: theorizing the fat body in feminist theories of eating disorders / Erin N. Harrop

Immovable subjects, unstoppable forces : bariatric surgery, gender, and the body / Nikkolette Lee

Gender, fat, and “reproductive” health care : negotiating fat pregnancy in the context of eugenics / Emily R.M. Lind, Deborah Mcphail, and Lindsey Mazur

Part 7. Gender and fat in popular culture and media

Sexy, docile bodies: the objectification and paternalistic management of plus-size models / Amanda m. Czerniawski

Big-gay men entering the twenty-first century: global perspectives on fat-affirming subcultures and imagery / Jason Whitesel

From hattie mcdaniel to queen latifah : examining a new mammy and other fat black women representations in contemporary media / Roshaunda l. Breeden and Terah J. Stewart

Part 8. Gender, fat, and resistance

Coming out as fat / Rachele Salvatelli

Fat air / Judith Stein with Meridith Lawrence and Susan Stinson

Belle di Faccia : fat activism in Italy / Mara Mibelli and Chiara Meloni

“Your belly is a heap of wheat” : a torah of fat liberation / Rabbi Minna Bromberg

Don’t forget to be yourself / Joy Cox

Part 9. In memoriam

Friend of cat / Substantia Jones