Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture

One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011

A necessary cultural and historical discussion on the stigma of fatness

To be fat hasn’t always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores this arc, from veneration to shame, examining the historic roots of our contemporary anxiety about fatness. Tracing the cultural denigra...