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Rethinking Fat Studies and Activism in Women's and Gender Studies Textbooks: Fatspiration, "Thin Saviours," and Sexist Beauty Culture
No full textThis 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. 
Where Are All the Other Fat Folks? Fat Liberation in Food Justice Work
No full textThis paper includes first-person narratives about my experiences as a fat (white, cis, queer) academic and teacher involved in community food justice research and advocacy. Theoretically grounded in fat studies and food studies, I explore the tensions amongst these disciplines and suggest that justice-minded food folks should also be focused on fat inclusion, addressing implicit bias in food advocacy spaces, celebrating food and community, and advocating for systemic change that supports fat liberation
Transgressing Professional Boundaries through Fat and Disabled Embodiments
Full text linkWe mine our experiences of fatness and disability to argue that professional doctrines function as professional biopedagogies: implicit and explicit instructions that teach us all how to manage our (professional) bodies through morally “right” behaviours. Analyzing our bodily transgressions leads to new insights about ways those in the “caring” professions might re-imagine our work, ourselves, and our practices
The Invisible Women: Untold Stories of Leadership, Resistance, and Every Day in the Indian Subcontinent
No full textÀ l’échelle mondiale, les femmes ont acquis une grande importance dans la politique électorale, en accédant à des postes de haut niveau dans divers domaines professionnels et en remportant de nombreux sièges au sein des parlements. Cependant, depuis l’antiquité, les femmes en Asie du Sud participent activement dans différentes sphères aux côtés des hommes. Alors que les États-Unis ont célébré l’arrivée d’une première vice-présidente féminine en 2021, la première femme à occuper le poste de premier ministre du monde en 1960 fut Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike au Sri Lanka, puis Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Haseena Wajid, Sonia Gandhi et Khaleda Zia ont été premières ministres de l’Inde, du Pakistan et du Bangladesh à la fin du 19e et au 20e siècle. Cette étude examine le rôle des femmes dans divers milieux de vie principalement en Inde antique ou dans le sous-continent en Asie du Sud
