The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass mar

This is an insightful and essential new volume for academics and professionals interested in the lived experience of those who struggle with disordered eating.

Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and d

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember.