The number of potential topics is amazing (as culled from the boards):
1) Changing body image with increased weight gain/loss
2) Erotic link between food/feeding and sexual gratification
3) Fat fiction
4) Fat as personal power
5) Fat as rebellion to accepted norms
6) Increased participation in fat acceptance groups/events
7) Chubby sub-cultures (e.g. bears, feeder/feedee, etc).
8) Increased chubbiness portrayed in media (and accompanying mixed messaging of thinness)
9) Changes in weight-loss marketing that focuses on self-acceptance at current weight as one loses.
Proposals and abstracts for papers and sessions in the
field of Fat Studies are sought for the Midwest
Popular Culture Association annual convention, to be
held Oct. 12-14 2007 in Kansas City, MO.
Send proposals, abstracts and requests for further
information to Sarah Boslaugh, PhD, MPH at [email protected].
Fat Studies is a fast-growing, interdisciplinary field
and proposals from any field of study are welcome. At
MPCA 2006 we had three full panels, with presentations
on widely varied topics including Ben Jonson's poetry,
comic book villains, celebrity exercise videos, BMI
testing in schools, eating disorders in prisons, and
the relationship between obesity and academic
achievement.
1) Changing body image with increased weight gain/loss
2) Erotic link between food/feeding and sexual gratification
3) Fat fiction
4) Fat as personal power
5) Fat as rebellion to accepted norms
6) Increased participation in fat acceptance groups/events
7) Chubby sub-cultures (e.g. bears, feeder/feedee, etc).
8) Increased chubbiness portrayed in media (and accompanying mixed messaging of thinness)
9) Changes in weight-loss marketing that focuses on self-acceptance at current weight as one loses.
Proposals and abstracts for papers and sessions in the
field of Fat Studies are sought for the Midwest
Popular Culture Association annual convention, to be
held Oct. 12-14 2007 in Kansas City, MO.
Send proposals, abstracts and requests for further
information to Sarah Boslaugh, PhD, MPH at [email protected].
Fat Studies is a fast-growing, interdisciplinary field
and proposals from any field of study are welcome. At
MPCA 2006 we had three full panels, with presentations
on widely varied topics including Ben Jonson's poetry,
comic book villains, celebrity exercise videos, BMI
testing in schools, eating disorders in prisons, and
the relationship between obesity and academic
achievement.
