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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Fat studies"”.
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Thickening Theory: Memoir, Affect, and Fat Feminist Futures
… is about the epistemological potential of fat life writing at the intersection of affect and embodiment. While the field of Fat Studies has its roots in liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s (Wykes, 2014), contemporary 'body positivity' has commodified feminist ideologies to promote a …
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A Fat Chance in Health: Examining the relationship between 'obesity' discourses, fatness, and conceptions of health
… have made it difficult to have ‘health’ as a fat person. Indeed, the contemporary framing of fatness as a disease manifested through poor lifestyle choices reduces many conversations about health and fatness to the effective elimination of fat people through weight-loss. This thesis examines …
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Controlling Bodies: Mothers, Adolescents, and Bad Advice
… alike. A recent field of literature called "fat studies" has sought to question this so-called epidemic, bringing to light inconsistencies or down-right falsehoods present in obesity research. While researchers in this field have importantly uncovered many myths surrounding obesity and …
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Addressing the Elephant in the Room: A Descriptive Analysis of Weight-Based Harassment on College Campuses
… gap within this literature is that most of these studies focus predominantly on adolescents and none focuses on older cohorts. To date only five studies have focused on college populations, but none focus on weight specifically as a factor. Although many individuals may disagree, weight-based …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… of the "obesity crisis" that position the fat body as a threat to U.S. military power and national identity. Since 9/11, there has been a growing rhetoric that frames obesity as a threat to national security that is weakening U.S. military forces and straining the U.S. economy through …
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Deviations from the prototype: Associations between women’s subjective weight and perceived sexual orientation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Mothering Out of Bounds: Inequality and Resistance in Fat Motherhood
… bearing hips" become 'too' wide and layered with fat? The medicalization of weight and body size pathologizes difference as deviance, framing fat women as a danger not only to themselves but to society at large when daring to reproduce. This dissertation seeks to uncover the long term impacts of …
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Folding fat: skinfold calipers, substance, and the circulation of doubt
… is a sociological study of the measurement of fat with Harpenden skinfold calipers. In the United Kingdom and elsewhere, fat is often understood as an obvious problem. Rather than approaching fat as already-known, I focus on historic and contemporary scientific research on skinfold measurement …
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Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity
… thinness. Further, research has explored how the fat acceptance movement and fitspiration has fought to resist such narratives. However, in the age of hashtag feminism a new group on social media, body positivity, has become the buzzword among celebrities, news conglomerates, and fashion …
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THE ROLE OF ALPHA OXIDATION IN LIPID METABOLISM
… it has been said that both these odd chain fatty acids are biomarkers of their dietary intake and are significantly correlated to dietary ruminant fat intake. However, there are profound studies that show the contrary where they do not display this biomarker correlation. Additionally, …
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Navigating the fat queer body: the impact of cultural discourses on identity construction and belonging
<p>Dominant discourses about fat bodies construct the fat body as undesirable, a failed thin body, and immoral. Similarly, the culture of the United States constructs the queer body in very particular ways. This thesis explores how normative discourses and ideas about fatness and queerness come …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
… and desire produced by interactions between fatness, queerness, and “white trashiness” on the terrain of late-twentieth-century representational and lived southern culture, and specifically how queer and “white trash” embodiments are both legible in terms of fatness, much in the way that …
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Examining the effects of implicit and internalized weight bias on physical activity participation for women in larger bodies
Weight stigma represents discrimination associated with the social beliefs that people in larger bodies have low willpower, are unmotivated, and are personally responsible for their elevated weight. Internalized weight stigma is the extent to which social perceptions of weight stigma are attributed …
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Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four—Can’t Get Through the Dressing Room Door?: An Examination of Excess as Queer Failure
<p>Failure and fat are not linear. It is taught, learned, reminded, and internalized. Our bodies have memories that are built through repeated moments. And for me, failure has been a part of my body’s map since I was born. This project is the culmination of many failures. In this dissertation, I am …