EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Obesity Society (TOS) commissioned a panel of experts from
among its members to undertake a review of the issue of labeling obesity a disease and to …

Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and
ambiguities that form the lived experience of'fat'women in contemporary Western society …

This book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential
developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the European Union. The book is …

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 …

It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has
existed in Canada since the early 1970s. This book focuses on the earliest strands of the …

Against the background of the so-called'obesity epidemic', Media and the Rhetoric of Body
Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical perfection that pervade Western …

The paper examines marriage equality through the eyes of the polyamorous
community.“Polyamory” is the practice of romantic relationships with more than one person …

Recent work in Fat Studies has begun to develop academic, artistic, online and real-life
narratives, events and activist interventions that provide challenges and alternatives to …

Weight discrimination is not only a social problem and a challenge for individual and public
health, but at least as much a matter of (human) rights. Many victims of weight discrimination …

This essay takes up the suggestion that fatness might be (or become) a disability, and uses
the observations it yields to propose a new account of a way American antidiscrimination …