Rachel Colls Editor

Lee F. Monaghan is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His most recent books include Men and the War on Obesity (2008), Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives (2011, edited with E. Rich and L. Aphramor), and Key Concepts in Medical Sociology (2013, with J. Gabe).　 Rachel Colls is Senior Lecturer at Durham University, UK. Her interests lie in Feminist poststructuralist theory and Geographies of the body and her research is developing critical geographical approaches to fatness. Her work has included projects on women’s embodied and emotional experiences of clothes shopping, the materialities of fat bodily matter, and fat accepting spaces in the context of Big Girls nights out. Bethan Evans is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research develops critical geographical approaches to fatness based on feminist and poststructural theory. She has particularly published on issues relating to children and young people’s involvement in anti-obesity policy. Bethan led the ESRC seminar series on which this collection is based.