Fat shame : stigma and the fat body in American culture / Amy Erdman Farrell.

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2011], ©2011.

x, 209 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Considering fat shame -- Fat, modernity, and the problem of excess -- Fat and the un-civilized body -- Feminism, citizenship, and fat stigma -- Narrating fat shame -- Refusing to apologize -- Conclusion : the horror, the horror.