Queering fat embodiment

Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as ?fat-phobia?.

Against the backdrop of the ever-growing medicalisation, pathologisation, and commodification of fatness, coupled with the moral panic over an alleged ?obesity epidemic?, this volume brings together the latest scholarship from various critical disciplines to challenge existing ideas of fat and fat embodiment.