Bodies out of bounds: fatness and transgression

Editors' Introduction / Kathleen LeBesco and Jana Evans Braziel

1. Fat Beauty / Richard Klein

2. "Horror of Corpulence": Interrogating Bantingism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-Phobia / Joyce L. Huff

3. Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship / Cecilia Hartley

4. Queering Fat Bodies/Politics / Kathleen LeBesco

5. Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo: A Fat Man's Recipe for Chicano Revolution / Marcia Chamberlain

6. Resisting Venus: Negotiating Corpulence in Exercise Videos / Antonia Losano and Brenda A. Risch

7. Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women / Le'a Kent

8. Roscoe Arbuckle and the Scandal of Fatness / Neda Ulaby

9. Setting Free the Bears: Refiguring Fat Men on Television / Jerry Mosher

10. "It's not over until the fat lady sings": Comedy, the Carnivalesque, and Body Politics / Angela Stukator

11. Devouring Women: Corporeality and Autonomy in Fiction by Women Since the 1960s / Sarah Shieff

12. Sex and Fat Chics: Deterritorializing the Fat Female Body / Jana Evans Braziel

13. "She's so fat ...": Facing the Fat Lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore / Sharon Mazer

14. Fatties on Stage: Feminist Performances / Petra Kuppers

15. Divinity: A Dossier, a Performance Piece, a Little-Understood Emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Fat beauty / Richard Klein

A "horror of corulence": interrogating Bantingism and Mid-nineteenth-century fat-phobia / Joyce L. Huff

Letting ourselves go: making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship / Cecilia Hartley

Queering fat bodies/politics / Kathleen LeBesco

Oscar Zeta Acosta's 'autobiography of a brown buffalo': A fat man's recipe for Chicano revolution / Marcia Chamberlain

Resisting Venus: negotiating corpulence in exercise videos / Antonia Losano and Brenda a. Risch

Fighting abjection: representing fat women / Le'a Kent

Roscoe Arbuckle and the scandal of fatness / Neda Ulaby

Setting free the bears; refiguring fat men on television / Jerry Mosher

"It's not over until the fat lady sings": comedy, the carnivalesque and body politics / Angela Stukator

Devouring women: corporeality and autonomy in fiction by women since the 1960s / Sarah Shieff.

Sex and fat chics: deterritorializing the fat female body / Jana Evans Braziel

"She's so fat ... ": facing the fat lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the seashore / Sharon Mazer

Fatties on Stage: feminist performances / Petra Kuppers

Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.