Anna Mollow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Mollow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Mollow |
| SIGNATURE | MOLLOW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fattening Austerity
English abstract: This essay presents “fattening austerity” as a new conceptual framework that will enable a collective resistance to austerity politics and fat oppression. Austerity and fatphobia have not, to our knowledge, been analyzed in tandem. But the discourses that uphold both punitive austerity measures and the pathologization of fat people’s bodies are deeply imbricated. Austerity and anti-fat stigma each invoke a language of crisis to …
Unvictimizable
This essay argues that fatphobia and ableism are exacerbating the problem of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans. I contend that racism, antifat prejudice, and ableism intersect to create a double bind that depicts black people as incapable of being victimized, for two contradictory reasons: fat black bodies are figured as innately disabled but also as invulnerable to disability and suffering. As a means of dismantling this double…
Criphystemologies
Through a reading of Freud's case history Dora, the article argues that the cultural construction of "hysteria" is a crucial factor in the oppression of people with what may be termed "undocumented disabilities"—that is, impairments that are neither visible nor definitively measurable by modern Western medical technologies. The contention is that the prevailing theoretical paradigms in disability studies are of limited use in developing critical …
Disability Studies Gets Fat
This article invites disability scholars to “get fat,” that is, to support the goals of the fat justice movement. I argue that the contemporary politics of fatness can productively be read through the lens of disability studies’ social model. At the same time, I mobilize feminist critiques of the social model to push fat disability studies toward a more in‐depth engagement with the topics of health and illness. Additionally, I contend that femini…
Sex and Disability
No Safe Place
No Safe Place Anna Mollow (bio) In November 2005, the day after my thirty-fifth birthday, I moved into a new apartment. It was on the first floor of a white stucco building with a red tile roof, a few blocks north of the University of California, Berkeley, campus. Excitedly, I set about decorating it. I piled pink-and-chocolate-brown-striped towels in the bathroom, installed wire shelves in the kitchen, and hung a full-length mirror with a thick,…
When Black Women start Going on Prozac
Journal Article "When Black Women start Going on Prozac": Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me Get access Anna Mollow Anna Mollow University of California at Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 67–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.3.67 Published: 01 September 2006
Disability Studies Gets Fat
This article invites disability scholars to “get fat,” that is, to support the goals of the fat justice movement. I argue that the contemporary politics of fatness can productively be read through the lens of disability studies’ social model. At the same time, I mobilize feminist critiques of the social model to push fat disability studies toward a more in‐depth engagement with the topics of health and illness. Additionally, I contend that femini…
Unvictimizable
This essay argues that fatphobia and ableism are exacerbating the problem of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans. I contend that racism, antifat prejudice, and ableism intersect to create a double bind that depicts black people as incapable of being victimized, for two contradictory reasons: fat black bodies are figured as innately disabled but also as invulnerable to disability and suffering. As a means of dismantling this double…
When Black Women start Going on Prozac
Journal Article "When Black Women start Going on Prozac": Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me Get access Anna Mollow Anna Mollow University of California at Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 67–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.3.67 Published: 01 September 2006
When Black Women start Going on Prozac
Journal Article "When Black Women start Going on Prozac": Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me Get access Anna Mollow Anna Mollow University of California at Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 67–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.3.67 Published: 01 September 2006
No Safe Place
No Safe Place Anna Mollow (bio) In November 2005, the day after my thirty-fifth birthday, I moved into a new apartment. It was on the first floor of a white stucco building with a red tile roof, a few blocks north of the University of California, Berkeley, campus. Excitedly, I set about decorating it. I piled pink-and-chocolate-brown-striped towels in the bathroom, installed wire shelves in the kitchen, and hung a full-length mirror with a thick,…
Sex and Disability
Criphystemologies
Through a reading of Freud's case history Dora, the article argues that the cultural construction of "hysteria" is a crucial factor in the oppression of people with what may be termed "undocumented disabilities"—that is, impairments that are neither visible nor definitively measurable by modern Western medical technologies. The contention is that the prevailing theoretical paradigms in disability studies are of limited use in developing critical …
Disability Studies Gets Fat
This article invites disability scholars to “get fat,” that is, to support the goals of the fat justice movement. I argue that the contemporary politics of fatness can productively be read through the lens of disability studies’ social model. At the same time, I mobilize feminist critiques of the social model to push fat disability studies toward a more in‐depth engagement with the topics of health and illness. Additionally, I contend that femini…
Unvictimizable
This essay argues that fatphobia and ableism are exacerbating the problem of state-sanctioned violence against African Americans. I contend that racism, antifat prejudice, and ableism intersect to create a double bind that depicts black people as incapable of being victimized, for two contradictory reasons: fat black bodies are figured as innately disabled but also as invulnerable to disability and suffering. As a means of dismantling this double…
Fattening Austerity
English abstract: This essay presents “fattening austerity” as a new conceptual framework that will enable a collective resistance to austerity politics and fat oppression. Austerity and fatphobia have not, to our knowledge, been analyzed in tandem. But the discourses that uphold both punitive austerity measures and the pathologization of fat people’s bodies are deeply imbricated. Austerity and anti-fat stigma each invoke a language of crisis to …
Disability studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works)