2024-2025 Catalog

CTSJ 342 Fatness

This course examines the historical context of anti-fatness and contemporary implications of this system of bias in the US. Students will examine socially constructed meanings of body size throughout global history and contemporary meanings assigned to bodies in the US compared to other countries. Students will learn about sizeism, fatphobia, fat-hatred, and other ways in which fatness is policed in contemporary societies. Students will also study fat acceptance campaigns, fat activism, and other body size social movements through an intersectional lens. 

Credits

4 units

Core Requirements Met

  • United States Diversity