Weight stigma is a pervasive issue promoting significant adverse health and psychosocial
consequences. Preconception, pregnant, and postpartum women are particularly vulnerable …

This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the
special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on feminist approaches to shame and …

Weight stigma is salient across the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum (PPP)
periods because of prevailing prescriptive norms and expectations about weight and weight …

Weight bias is prevalent for people in large bodies who are trying to conceive, pregnant, or
postpartum. Using the theory of memorable messages as a framework, we explored the …

In this paper, we explored the experiences of people in larger bodies seeking fertility and/or
pregnancy care through a reproductive justice lens, integrating an understanding of weight …

Weight stigma contributes to healthcare-related stress and can make pregnancy difficult for
people in larger bodies who are frequently denied reproductive healthcare treatment or …

Access to publicly funded fertility care in Aotearoa New Zealand is determined by clinical
priority access criteria (CPAC). The CPAC for infertility is designed to ration public access to …

The body is central to women's construction of premenstrual change as premenstrual
syndrome (PMS), and to experiences of premenstrual distress. Embodied change, such as …

This paper explores issues of weight stigma in fertility, reproduction, pregnancy and
parenting through a fat reproductive justice lens. We engage with multimedia/digital stories …

Research has highlighted damaging contradictions in the responsibilisation of mothers over
children's health, at once held responsible for tackling “childhood obesity” while being …