Natalie C Boero
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie C Boero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie C |
| FAMILY NAME | Boero |
| SIGNATURE | BOERO N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward a Sociology of the Body
This essay is designed to establish the theoretical framework and goals for The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, foremost of which is delineating what a sociology of the body must entail. Critically, a sociology of the body must recognize bodies as both cause and consequence of societal forces. It must also investigate how bodies change in response to their surroundings: not just through the centuries-long process of evolu…
Thick Bodies, Thick Skins
In this article, we offer critical reflections on our engagement with the first two decades of sociological contributions to the field of fat studies. Rather than a comprehensive review of sociological fat studies literature, we instead reflect on the role of our own embodiment as fat, white, visibly able-bodied, queer, cisgender women. We compare the experiences of conducting face-to-face research with fat participants to secondary or content an…
Killer Fat
In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, “snack taxes,” and laws to control how fast food companies market to children. As an epidemic, obesity threatens to weaken the health, economy, and might of the most powerful n…
Fat kids
The authors introduce the special issue on fat kids by making the argument that children and childhood need to be more central to the interdisciplinary project of fat studies. The authors discuss existing work on fatness and kids within fat studies and related disciplines. They argue that these works, though important in their documentation of the experiences of fat kids, do not do enough to place fat kids and childhood at the center of theoretic…
Queer bodies taking up space
Obesity in the media
Obesity has become a mainstay of media in all its forms and sociologists and others have increasingly sought to understand what reporting on obesity can tell us about the construction of social problems, health, and health policy. In this commentary, I review recent social science writing on the representation of obesity in the media. I explore three dominant themes in this research, the framing of obesity in the media, media reporting of obesity…
Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction
This article details the making of community and bodies in online environments, specifically the online pro-anorexia community. Building community among members of these groups is particularly fraught because tensions over claims to authenticity permeate these groups. Because these are embodied practices and online spaces are presumably disembodied, participants constantly grapple with authenticity, largely through the threat of the 'wannarexic'.…
Body Panic
All the News that's Fat to Print
All the News that's Fat to Print
Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction
This article details the making of community and bodies in online environments, specifically the online pro-anorexia community. Building community among members of these groups is particularly fraught because tensions over claims to authenticity permeate these groups. Because these are embodied practices and online spaces are presumably disembodied, participants constantly grapple with authenticity, largely through the threat of the 'wannarexic'.…
All the News that's Fat to Print
Body Panic
Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction
This article details the making of community and bodies in online environments, specifically the online pro-anorexia community. Building community among members of these groups is particularly fraught because tensions over claims to authenticity permeate these groups. Because these are embodied practices and online spaces are presumably disembodied, participants constantly grapple with authenticity, largely through the threat of the 'wannarexic'.…
Queer bodies taking up space
Obesity in the media
Obesity has become a mainstay of media in all its forms and sociologists and others have increasingly sought to understand what reporting on obesity can tell us about the construction of social problems, health, and health policy. In this commentary, I review recent social science writing on the representation of obesity in the media. I explore three dominant themes in this research, the framing of obesity in the media, media reporting of obesity…
Fat kids
The authors introduce the special issue on fat kids by making the argument that children and childhood need to be more central to the interdisciplinary project of fat studies. The authors discuss existing work on fatness and kids within fat studies and related disciplines. They argue that these works, though important in their documentation of the experiences of fat kids, do not do enough to place fat kids and childhood at the center of theoretic…
Killer Fat
In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, “snack taxes,” and laws to control how fast food companies market to children. As an epidemic, obesity threatens to weaken the health, economy, and might of the most powerful n…
Toward a Sociology of the Body
This essay is designed to establish the theoretical framework and goals for The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, foremost of which is delineating what a sociology of the body must entail. Critically, a sociology of the body must recognize bodies as both cause and consequence of societal forces. It must also investigate how bodies change in response to their surroundings: not just through the centuries-long process of evolu…
Thick Bodies, Thick Skins
In this article, we offer critical reflections on our engagement with the first two decades of sociological contributions to the field of fat studies. Rather than a comprehensive review of sociological fat studies literature, we instead reflect on the role of our own embodiment as fat, white, visibly able-bodied, queer, cisgender women. We compare the experiences of conducting face-to-face research with fat participants to secondary or content an…
Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)