Issue 2.1 of Somatechnics has just been published, a special issue on 'fat bodily being' edited by Samantha Murray. It looks really good. I'm in it too.
Somatechnics home page at Edinburgh University Press
Here's the table of contents:
'Fat Bodily Being' Editorial
Samantha Murray
Fat, Queer, Dead: 'Obesity' and the Death Drive
Francis Ray White
Big Girls Having Fun: Reflections on a 'fat accepting space'
Rachel Colls
Control Top Underpants
Samantha Murray
Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat
Cat Pausé
DANGER, Curves Ahead
Cleo Gardiner
'I saw a knock-out': Fatness, (In)visibility, and Desire in Shallow Hal
Jackie Wykes
Not Just a Type: Diabetes, Fat and Fear
Jennifer Lee
Native American Indian Women, Fat Studies and Feminism
Jennifer A. Boisvert
Fox's More to Love: Pseudo-Fat Acceptance in Reality Television
MacKenzie Peltier and Lauren Mizock
'I'd kill anyone who tried to take my band away': Obesity Surgery, Critical Fat Politics and the 'problem' of Patient Demand
Karen Throsby
Fat Activist Community: A Conversation Piece
Charlotte Cooper and Samantha Murray
If you don't have access to university libraries and want to read this stuff, you can buy a single issue, which costs between £16-$32 depending on where you live. If this sort of money is beyond you and you still want to read the pieces, please get in touch.
2 comments:
Oh, man. That looks SO interesting. I wish the full articles were available for free. On the other hand, I guess academics and journal publishers need to get paid.
If only academics did get paid for publishing this stuff. As far as I know it's only the publishers that make any money.
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