The ‘Fat’ Female Body

1. Introduction: The ‘Fat’ Female Body: Pathological, Political and Phenomenological Imaginings
Samantha Murray

Part I. Pathologising Fatness: Medical Authority and Popular Culture

2. Positioning ‘Fatness’ in Our Cultural Imaginary
Samantha Murray

3. The ‘Normal’ and the ‘Pathological’: ‘Obesity’ and the Dis-eased ‘Fat’ Body
Samantha Murray

4. ‘Fat’ Bodies as Virtual Confessors and Medical Morality
Samantha Murray

Part II. ‘Fat’ Backlash: Activism and Identity Politics

5. Fed Up with Fat-Phobia: Coming Out as ‘Fat’
Samantha Murray

6. Fat Pride and the Insistence on the Voluntarist Subject
Samantha Murray

7. Fattening Up Foucault: A ‘Fat’ Counter-Aesthetic?
Samantha Murray

Part III. ‘Fat’ ‘Being’: Rethinking the ‘Body-Subject’ with Merleau-Ponty

8. Throwing Off Discourse? Questions of Ambivalence and the Mind/Body Split
Samantha Murray

9. (‘Fat’) ‘Being-In-The-World’: Merleau-Ponty’s Account of the ‘Body-Subject’
Samantha Murray

10. Embodiment as Ambiguity: ‘Fatness’ as it is Lived
Samantha Murray

11. An Afterword: ‘Fat’ Bodily Being?
Samantha Murray

Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Health Psychology, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Sociology of the Body, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Feminism