Cover; Contents; List of Figures; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Why Queering Fat Embodiment?; 2 Queering Body Size and Shape: Performativity, the Closet, Shame and Orientation; 3 Becoming Travolta; 4 The Performance of Fat: The Spectre Outside the House of Desire; 5 On Fatness and Fluidity: A Meditation; 6 Chubby Boys with Strap-Ons: Queering Fat Transmasculine Embodiment; 7 Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace; 8 Flaunting Fat: Sex with the Lights On
9 Queering the Linkages and Divergences: The Relationship between Fatness and Disability and the Hope for a Livable World10 Bear Arts Naked: Queer Activism and the Fat Male Body; 11 Fashion's 'Forgotten Woman': How Fat Bodies Queer Fashion and Consumption; Index
Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilises established ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses
