Tag Archives: Fat Studies

Weight Stigma & Health: Whose Problem Is It? (CFP, Conference, Birmingham, 16 May 2013)

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

CONFERENCE: ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Weight stigma and health: whose problem is it? University of Birmingham Thursday 16th May, 2013 You are invited to attend a multidisciplinary conference focusing on the subject of Weight Stigma and Health, featuring presentations … Continue reading →

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Free Extract! – Louise Foxcroft, Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2000 Years

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

Those nice folk at Profile Books have allowed us to reproduce the first chapter of Louise Foxcroft‘s fantastic book on the history of dieting, published earlier this year. Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2000 Years (Profile, 2012) gives … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 17, 2012 by

Reblogged from Abetternhs's Blog: Masaccio: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden 1425 Through the concrete physicality of the two figures and the arid landscape around them, Masaccio makes believable the first dolorous steps of human beings on earth, … Continue reading →

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Problematising ‘problematic’ pregnancies (Workshop, Durham, 22 November 2012)

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

Workshop: Problematising ‘problematic’ pregnancies Thursday 22nd November 2012 Time:  9.30am- 12noon (coffee/tea available at 9.30am; workshop starts at 10am) Location: Room W215 (Department of Geography, Durham University) Presenters: Dr Sally Brown (Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University) ‘What’s the problem with teenage … Continue reading →

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Special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society on Visual Representation (CFP)

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

Special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society on Visual Representation, edited by Stefanie Snider, PhD Visual representations of and/or by fat people are powerful tools of both oppression and empowerment. This special issue of … Continue reading →

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Body & Society – Free Access to Highly Cited (Medical Humanities) Articles Until October 31 2011

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

The editors of Body & Society are offering free online access to the most highly-cited papers from the journal until October 31 2011. The abstracts of articles which have a special relevance to work in the Centre for Medical Humanities … Continue reading →

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Call for papers – Health at Every Size UK Fat Studies Seminar – 7-8 November 2011

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

Health at Every Size UK [HAES UK] Fat Studies Seminar Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 November 2011 Call for Papers The School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, is pleased to host a Fat Studies seminar on behalf … Continue reading →

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CFP: ‘Fat Materialities: From Substance to Experience’ (Edited Collection)

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

‘Fat Materialities: From Substance to Experience’ Edited by Christopher E. Forth, Alison Leitch, and Samantha Murray In today’s world, where warnings of the ‘obesity epidemic’ are regular front-page news, it is impossible to escape the ways in which ‘fat’ is … Continue reading →

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CFP: Fat Studies (First Issue of a New Routledge Journal)

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

 Fat Studies: A Journal of Research  is the first academic journal in the field of scholarship that critically examinestheory, research, and societal attitudes about body weight and appearance, and that advocates equality for allpeople with respect to body size. The … Continue reading →

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‘Change4Life for your kids’: embodied collectives and public health pedagogy

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

Bethan Evans, Rachel Colls and Kathrin Hörschelmann have written a paper on the insights offered by contemporary work in human geography on relationality to critical understandings of health pedagogies with a case study analysis of the change4life campaign. This is … Continue reading →

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