Drop Dead Diva is interesting not because it has a size 16 lead but because of how a size 16 lead can be incorporated into an already rigid gender and sexual bodily normativity by disciplining an unruly fat woman’s ‘lesser’ desires, and slenderizing her appearance, bringing her into a white heterosexual visual gender economy.

This encyclopedia entry introduces the discipline of fat studies, including key methodological starting points such as a critical position on the “the obesity epidemic,” political origins within fat activism, and a mutual relationship with a pro-fat justice health paradigm, Health at Every Size (HAES). It also covers complicating and intersectional factors, such as reinforcing a white perspective within fat activism and studies and affinities with feminist and queer activism and studies.

This paper surveys women’s and gender studies textbook inclusions on fatness. It highlights the framing, focus areas, and content to develop a discussion of the scholarly and political tensions between fat activists and fat studies scholars, and feminist politics and scholarship. Specifically, the article critiques the subsumption of fat within critiques of beauty culture, the use of extractive narratives, and healthism. The article suggests ways of including critical fat scholarship and activist writing that is intersectional. 

“I thought you wanted me to “perform” Cindy Baker as one would perform Hamlet. As I was reading the lecture in advance, it became clearer to me that this was something quite different than a lecture.”

Rodier examines the dominant narrative of the thin, cisgender, heterosexual white female victim, and the ways in which social and cultural conversations are impacted by sexual violence in media.

This introduction reflects on practices of telling stories about works by influential contemporary feminist philosophers, interrogating what is considered impactful feminist philosophy.

[D]ominant norms of who is a rational philosopher continue to be aligned with contemporary neoliberal values such as individualism, self-sufficiency, discipline, and freedom of the will.

This text offers students an introduction to critical thinking methods, principles, and applied examples. It engages the reader to question their attitude and approach to critical thinking .

Focusing on the media response to Brown's violence, we examine how many accounts of gender-based violence rely on temporal imperatives that are intended to bolster women's agency.