4. Is “Permanent Weight Loss” an Oxymoron?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xxvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. What Is Fat Studies? The Social and Historical Construction of Fatness
7. 1. The Inner Corset 11
8. 2. Fattening Queer History 15
9. Part II. Fat Studies in Health and Medicine
10. 3. Does Social Class Explain the Connection Between Weight and Health? 25
11. 4. Is “Permanent Weight Loss” an Oxymoron? 37
12. 5. What Is “Health at Every Size”? 42
13. 6. Widening the Dialogue to Narrow the Gap in Health Disparities 54
14. 7. Quest for a Cause 65
15. 8. Prescription for Harm 75
16. 9. Public Fat 88
17. 10. That Remains to Be Said Disappeared Feminist Discourses on Fat in Dietetic Theory and Practice 97
18. 11. Fatness (In)visible 106
19. Part III. Fatness as Social Inequality
20. 12. Fat Kids, Working Moms, and the “Epidemic of Obesity” 113
21. 13. Fat Youth as Common Targets for Bullying 120
22. 14. Bon Bon Fatty Girl 127
23. 15. Part-Time Fatso 139
24. 16. Double Stigma: Fat Men and Their Male Admirers 143
25. 17. The Shape of Abuse 151
26. 18. Fat Women as “Easy Targets” 158
27. 19. No Apology 167
28. 20. Access to the Sky 176
29. 21. Neoliberalism and the Constitution of Contemporary Bodies 187
30. 22. Sitting Pretty 197
31. 23. Stigma Threat and the Fat Professor 205
32. 24. Fat Stories in the Classroom 213
33. Part IV. Size-ism in Popular Culture and Literature
34. 25. Fat Girls and Size Queens 223
35. 26. Fat Girls Need Fiction 231
36. 27. Fat Heroines in Chick-Lit 235
37. 28. The Fat of the (Border)land 241
38. 29. Placing Fat Women on Center Stage 249
39. 30. “The White Man’s Burden” 256
40. 31. The Roseanne Benedict Arnolds 263
41. 32. Jiggle in My Walk 271
42. 33. Seeing Through the Layers 280
43. 34. Controlling the Body 289
44. 35. “I’m Allowed to Be a Sexual Being” 299
45. 36. Embodying Fat Liberation 305
46. 37. Not Jane Fonda 312
47. 38. Exorcising the Exercise Myth 320
48. Part VI. Starting the Revolution
49. 39. Maybe It Should Be Called Fat American Studies 327
50. 40. Are We Ready to Throw Our Weight Around? Fat Studies and Political Activism 334
51. Appendix A 341
52. About the Contributors 351
53. Index 359