Fat Studies in Canada : (Re)Mapping the Field
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| Title: | Fat Studies in Canada : (Re)Mapping the Field |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Allison Taylor, Kelsey Ioannoni |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Obesity--Social aspects--Canada, Overweight persons--Canada |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781771339483 9781771339490 9781771339506 |
