This book documents how whiteness can take up space in US cities and policies through
well-intentioned progressive policy agendas that support green urbanism. Through in-depth …

Americans seem caught in a paradox involving nutrition guidance, nutrition science, and
health: Scientists and public health experts continue to produce information and advice …

As a scholar-activist invested in tending to fat life, embodiment and world-making practices, I
am struck by the ways in which Fat Studies scholars and activists have gravitated towards …

After a long history of attempts to analyze the essence of the concept of health, it is
becoming popular for philosophers to turn to a more fiuid, strategic, pragmatist conception of …

Abstract “Obese” individuals encounter a pervasive stigma. How obese individuals
conceptualize their relationships to food and navigate their eating behaviors, within this …

This paper examines how media representations of Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle
perpetuate concepts of good femininity rooted in racialized norms. Simone de Beauvoir's …

Officially, Western societies are waging a war on obesity. Unofficially, we are waging a war
on fat people. Anti-fat sentiment is pervasive, and fat people suffer a host of harms as a …

In recent years, analyses of mainstream media constructions of the obesity 'epidemic'have
proliferated within fat studies. Of less attention has been the visual representation of obesity …

Women are taught that if they'eat right,''exercise right,'and have enough'will-power'they can
achieve an idealized thin body. I have been engaged in an ethnography of pro-eating …

In a neoliberal climate of underfunded and overcrowded public schools, physical education
has suffered. With only six states requiring physical education in every grade and only 2 …