Reading List

Want to know more about representation, fatness and fatphobia?

Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism : A Radical Social Movement (Bristol: HammerOn Press, 2016)

Amy Erdman Farrell, Fat Shame : Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2011)

Aubrey Gordon, ''Fat’ Isn’t a Bad Word—It’s Just the Way I Describe My Body', (www.self.com: 2021) 

Aubrey Gordon, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Boston, USA: Beacon Press, 2021), p. 216 pages 

Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat (London: 4th Estate, 2019) 

Cat Pausé  and Sonya Renee Taylor, The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies, Routledge International Handbooks (London: Routledge, 2021) 

Esther D Rothblum, and Sondra Solovay, The Fat Studies Reader (New York: New York Unviersity Press, 2009) 

Friedrich Schorb, 'Fat Politics in Europe: Theorizing on the Premises and Outcomes of European Anti-“Obesity-Epidemic” Policies', Fat Studies, 2. 1 (2013), 3-16 

Stefanie Snider, 'Fatness and Visual Culture: A Brief Look at Some, Contemporary Projects', Fat Studies, 1. 1 (2012), 13-31 

Sabrina Strings , Fearing the Black Body : The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (New York: New York University Press, 2019) 

Leah Sweet, 'Fantasy Bodies, Imagined Pasts: A Critical Analysis of the “Rubenesque” Fat Body in Contemporary Culture', Fat Studies, 3. 2 (2014), 130-42 

Lindy West, Shrill : Notes from a Loud Woman, First edition. edn (New York: Hachette Books, 2016