Ariane Prohaska is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include gender, bodies, fat studies, and disaster sociology. She has recently published in Fat Studies, Critical Policy Studies, and International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.

Jeannine A. Gailey is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University. She studies gender, bodies, fat studies, and sexualities. Her recent research has appeared in Fat Studies, Feminism & Psychology, and Qualitative Research. Her monograph, The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman, was published in 2014.

Introduction - Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovations

Ariane Prohaska and Jeannine A. Gailey

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Jacqueline O'Toole

2. Understanding fatness: Jamaican women's constructions of health

Claudia Barned and Kieran O'Doherty

3. Frozen: A fat tale of immigration

Cat Pausé

4. Can ambivalence hold potential for fat activism? An analysis of conflicting discourses on fatness in the Finnish column series Jenny's Life Change

Anna Puhakka

5. "You will face discrimination": Fatness, motherhood, and the medical profession

Jennifer Lee

6. Rock and rolls: Exploring body positivity at Girls Rock Camp

Trisha L. Crawshaw

7. Mapping the circulation of fat hatred

Jen Rinaldi, Carla Rice, Crystal Kotow and Emma Lind