DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The Future Is Fat

Theorizing Time in Relation to Body Weight and Stigma

May Friedman editor Jen Rinaldi editor Emily RM Lind editor Crystal Kotow editor Tracy Tidgwell editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:25th Sep '23

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This paperback is available in another edition too:

The Future Is Fat cover

Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all. In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered the fat body more and more visible, and yet the lived experiences of fat people are continually erased.

At a moment when scholars from various disciplines are contending with the question of who has a future, this book explores the relationship between fat experience and the social construction of time. The works in this volume draw from fields as diverse as social geography, women and gender studies, critical race theory, disability studies, cultural studies, visual art and craft, social work, communication studies, and queer theory, generating renewed understandings of the relationship between fatness and temporality. The Future Is Fat reimagines understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat experience.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.

ISBN: 9780367714949

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

130 pages