" Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling
analyses of the tension between the'social model'of disability and the material details of …

The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical
landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human …

SUMMARY In this chapter, Tobin Siebers critiques the ideology of ability that entails a
preference for ablebodiedness and defines humanness by bodily measures. This ideology …

Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the
oncoming'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are …

All the recent attention to the so-called obesity epidemic provides a fascinating context for
understanding interactions between civil rights consciousness and the ordinary lives of fat …

This paper expands a discussion begun by a fat activist in the UK disability literature to
argue that fatness is a disability issue. Some ways in which fat people are oppressed by the …

Disability is often described in a way that suggests that it is most often a permanent state.
Several, if not most, of the concepts and models of disability suggest this. Even when it is …

With great interest, employers in the United States are using wellness programs to reduce
insurance costs and monitor the health of their employees. While these programs are often …

Scholars in disability studies have recently sought to account for fatness, claiming an
inseparable link between disability and fat scholarship. Interrogating the stigmas of fatness …

What power relations exist at the intersections of femininity and fatness in rock climbing? In
this article, we theorize our experiences with indoor recreational rock climbing focusing on …