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  • Fat Studies: The Basics

    by May Friedman ...
    Series series The Basics
    Fat Studies: The Basics introduces the reading of fat bodies and the ways that Fat Studies, as a field, has responded to waves of ideas about fat people, their lives, and choices.Part civil rights discourse and part academic discipline, Fat Studies is a dynamic project that involves contradiction and discussion. In order to understand this field, the book also explores its intersections with race, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood

    by May Friedman ...
    Mothers have consistently relied upon one another for guidance and support as they navigate the difficult world of parenting. For many women, the increasingly established online community of “mommyblogs” now provides a source of camaraderie and support that acknowledges both the work of mothering and the implications of its undertaking. Beyond their capacity to entertain, how have mommyblogs ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Future Is Fat

    Theorizing Time in Relation to Body Weight and Stigma

    Edited by Jen Rinaldi, May Friedman, Emily R.M. Lind, Crystal Kotow, Tracy Tidgwell ...
    Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all. In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered the fat body more and ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Rights and Reason

    Essays in Honor of Carl Wellman

    Edited by Marilyn Friedman, Larry May, K. Parsons, J. Stiff ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The papers in this book have been collected in celebration of Carl Wellman, who, after forty-five years, is retiring from teaching. Here I would like to highlight a few of the moments which have shaped Carl as a person and a philosopher. Although his childhood was not unhappy, Carl faced considerable challenges growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire. He ne ver knew his father; he and his mother, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • This Is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like

    Perspectives on the SlutWalk Movement

    Edited by Alyssa Teekah, Erika Jane Scholz, May Friedman, Andrea O’Reilly ...
    In April 2011, a team of five people put together Slutwalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In the name of campus “safety”, Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized”. The sentiment of those in the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Body Stories

    in and out and with and through fat

    Edited by Jill Andrew, May Friedman ...
    Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive and complex telling of our understanding, perception and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a “how-to” guide for fat confidence. It’s not a compendium of fat suffering ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Thickening Fat

    Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice

    Edited by May Friedman, Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi ...
    Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat oppression and fat activisms. Moving beyond an analysis of fat oppression as singular, this book will aim to unpack the volatility of fat—the mutability of fat embodiments as they correlate with other embodied subjectivities, and the threshold where fat begins ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Chasing Rainbows

    Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices

    Edited by Fiona J. Green, May Friedman ...
    Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may feel the desire for feminist parenting whilst experiencing a backlash and a lack of support, while some parents may attempt to resist the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Click and Kin

    Transnational Identity and Quick Media

    Edited by May Friedman, Silvia Schultermandl ...
    Click and Kin is an interdisciplinary examination of how our increasingly mobile and networked age is changing the experience of kinship and connection. Focusing on how identity formation is affected by quick media such as instant messaging, video chat, and social networks, the contributors to this collection use ethnographic and textual analyses, as well as autobiographical approaches, to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women

    by Crystal Kotow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW “bashes”—multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers. Using a range of feminist theories of embodiment and affect, the project is guided by autoethnography and in-depth interviews with twelve participants. Participant experiences are first analyzed with a key focus on experiences that cause grief and disenfranchisement; ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

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  • Perfect Me

    Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

    by Heather Widdows ...
    How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

    Governing Bodies

    Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different individuals, social groups and institutions. Contributors from the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD