Although research and scholarship on weight-based stigma have increased substantially in
recent years, the disproportionate degree of bias experienced by fat women has received …

In The Hyper (in) visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women's
perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them …

This creative-critical paper combines creative non-fiction and theory to trace one non-
disabled scholar's personal experience with disability studies as a field and a community …

To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group
monikers for big gay men-chubs, bears, cubs-the anti-fat stigma that persists in American …

¿ Por qué nuestra apariencia corporal nos inquieta tanto?¿ Qué es lo que se valora
socialmente en ella?¿ Se tasa en todos los entornos del mismo modo? Una reconstrucción …

Background: Anonymous verbal attacks against overweight individuals on social media are
common and widespread. These comments often use negative, misogynist, or derogatory …

The phenomenon of hogging is deeply rooted in both culturally sanctioned misogyny and
stereotypes that equate beauty and sexual attractiveness with thinness. The chapter …

This article examines fat college students' experiences of stigma. Fourteen college students
and recent graduates describe their experiences of discrimination and stigma during their …

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Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—
including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence …