The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass mar

This is an insightful and essential new volume for academics and professionals interested in the lived experience of those who struggle with disordered eating.

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

This book is about how African American males experience masculinity politics, and how U.S. sexism and racial ranking influences relationships between black and