Fat Studies

Fat studies is an area of academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The fat studies list contains academic works on this topic and books that seek to create social change around weight oppression. Books that promote of the goal of weight loss are on a different topic.

The Fat Studies Reader
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
What's Wrong with Fat?
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion
The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health

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Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
What's Wrong with Fat?
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