The 'fat' Female Body

Exploring the rapidly increasing interest in obesity and fatness, this book engages with dominant ideas about fatness and analyses the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, looking at the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologizing fat bodies.

Review:

'This is a courageous, poignant, honest, passionate, angry book - rare qualities in a work of scholarship.' - Bioethical Inquiry 'As Murray notes, her ambition has not been to offer a new model for fat embodiment, but to look for new ways to understand it.

Murray has succeeded in her task admirably. By moving the examination of the fat female body into the realm of the philosophical, she has been able to take the theory of fatness in a new exciting direction.' Hannele Harjunen, Social Semiotics