Jeannine A Gailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 72773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeannine A Gailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeannine A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gailey |
| SIGNATURE | GAILEY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4407-1332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
I don't eat that much: Fatphobia and Women Baby Boomers' Fear of Weight Gain
Approximately 40 million women in the US are over 60 years old, yet there is limited research on older women’s feelings about their ageing bodies. This study examines the corporeal experiences of 44 US women aged 60-plus through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Despite asking questions about other aspects of their body image, participants focused primarily on their weight, size, and their fears of weight gain. Interviewees framed their weigh…
The Violence of Fat Hatred in the “Obesity Epidemic” Discourse
The concern globally over the “obesity epidemic” has become one of the most widely discussed social problems over the last twenty or so years. There is an intense focus from the media, popular culture, government agencies, and medical community about the harms of “obesity,” which includes strategies for eradicating the “obesity epidemic.” Public discussions of “excess weight” typically imply that fat persons are responsible for their body size, a…
Fiction Meets Reality: A Comparison of Dietland and the Experiences of North American Fat Women
In June of 2018, AMC debuted the series Dietland, a television show about a woman of size named Plum who plans to have weight loss surgery until she begins a journey of self-acceptance. While critics assert that the harms enacted against Plum are exaggerated, we show through 74 in-depth interviews with North American women of size that the representation of Plum’s lived experiences are sadly realistic and, in many instances, mirror those of the w…
Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovations
The oppression of fat people is built into institutions, pervades the cultural landscape, and affects the relationships and perceptions of people of size. In this introduction to the special issue on fat oppression, we examine the concept of oppression and its place in fat studies before reviewing the extant literature on fat oppression. We also discuss how the articles chosen for this issue contribute to the existing theoretical and empirical un…
A cross-cultural examination of fat women’s experiences: Stigma and gender in North American and Finnish culture
In this manuscript, the voices of women of size in North America and Finland indicate that there is a shared experience of being fat. Based on cross-cultural analysis of our respective empirical findings, we argue that there is a shared Western fat lived experience that perpetuates a stigmatized gendered landscape of living with a fat body. The emergent themes tended to revolve around two similar contradictions—the phenomenon of hyper(in)visibili…
The ‘Fat’ Female Body , by Samantha Murray: Basingstoke, England, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
In The ‘Fat’ Female Body, Samantha Murray challenges the contemporary cultural and social anti-fat discourse and medicalization of “obesity.” When Murray’s book was initially published in 2008, she
The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman: Weight and Gender Discourse in Contemporary Society
In The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women's perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them. The book explores the p
Fat Shame to Fat Pride: Fat Women's Sexual and Dating Experiences
The fat female body is typically not considered attractive or sexual in Western culture. Not surprisingly, the scholarship about fat women's dating and sexual histories is deficient. To address this gap, 36 fat-identified women were interviewed about their body image, involvement in the size acceptance movement, and their dating and sexual histories. Results indicated that most participants felt intense body shame and had unsatisfying sex lives u…
Power and gender negotiations during interviews with men about sex and sexually degrading practices
The topic of female researchers interviewing male subjects has received previous attention, but few scholarly works focus specifically on sensitive topics such as sexual behaviors. The discrepancy suggests that even though women researchers interview men about sensitive issues, sexuality still seems out of bounds. Based on our research, we found it intellectually and emotionally challenging to interview men about sexually degrading behaviors. In …
Achieving masculinity through sexual predation: The Case of Hogging
Hegemonic masculinity in the contemporary United States involves control, domination, competition, aggression, and the devaluing of women. Hogging, a practice whereby men seek out women they deem unattractive or fat for sexual purposes, has been largely overlooked by scholars. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to explore hogging from a sociology of masculinities perspective. Interviews and content analyses were conducted to learn abo…
Starving Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have: The Pro-Ana Subculture as Edgework
Attribution of Responsibility as a Multidimensional Concept
Attributions of responsibility (AR) are of interest to sociologists and psychologists. However, the measurement of AR has been inconsistent both within and across the disciplines. The present study tests whether AR is a multidimensional or unidimensional concept. Data for study 1 were collected from 201 undergraduate students at a large, midwestern university. Results indicate that there are four factors associated with AR, supporting the content…
Influences and the Assignment of Responsibility for Wrongdoing in Organizational Settings
How do the media and an actor's social role influence a person's perception of organizational wrongdoing? We argue that the manner in which events are framed in media presentations influences how people attribute responsibility, regardless of the actor's social role. In the present study, approximately half of the participants watched a televised media report focusing on organizational causes of wrongdoing; the other half were not exposed to medi…
Commentary on Knottnerus et al. (2006) `Exposing Enron: Media Representations of Ritualized Deviance in Corporate Culture
Who Is to Blame for Deviance in Organizations? The Role of Scholarly Worldviews
This paper explores two of the most important challenges facing contemporary scholars who seek to assign blame for deviance in organizational contexts. The first concerns the selection of an appropriate level of analysis. The second focuses on the social meaning of intent, or willfulness, also called mens rea in criminal trials. We suggest that scholarly worldviews play a central role in determining how these issues are discussed in the literatur…
Knocking off a Fat Girl: An Exploration of Hogging, Male Sexuality, and Neutralizations
The mistreatment of women in the United States is part of a larger problem of cultural misogyny. Hogging is one of the many forms of mistreatment that is devalued and often overlooked. It is a practice where men seek women who are overweight or unattractive to satisfy their competitive or sexual urges. The purpose of this paper is to understand hogging through men's accounts and use of neutralization techniques. Results indicate that two-thirds o…
An Integrated Model of Attribution of Responsibility for Wrongdoing in Organizations
Sociologists and psychologists have spent several decades attempting to improve our understanding of the factors that influence how people attribute responsibility for outcomes of social action, particularly wrongdoing. Members of two disciplines continue to refine Heider's seminal work in distinct ways, but have not developed a definitive test of attribution of responsibility (AOR) because of the ad hoc nature of existing research. To move towar…
Knocking off a Fat Girl: An Exploration of Hogging, Male Sexuality, and Neutralizations
The mistreatment of women in the United States is part of a larger problem of cultural misogyny. Hogging is one of the many forms of mistreatment that is devalued and often overlooked. It is a practice where men seek women who are overweight or unattractive to satisfy their competitive or sexual urges. The purpose of this paper is to understand hogging through men's accounts and use of neutralization techniques. Results indicate that two-thirds o…
Power and gender negotiations during interviews with men about sex and sexually degrading practices
The topic of female researchers interviewing male subjects has received previous attention, but few scholarly works focus specifically on sensitive topics such as sexual behaviors. The discrepancy suggests that even though women researchers interview men about sensitive issues, sexuality still seems out of bounds. Based on our research, we found it intellectually and emotionally challenging to interview men about sexually degrading behaviors. In …
Starving Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have: The Pro-Ana Subculture as Edgework
The Violence of Fat Hatred in the “Obesity Epidemic” Discourse
The concern globally over the “obesity epidemic” has become one of the most widely discussed social problems over the last twenty or so years. There is an intense focus from the media, popular culture, government agencies, and medical community about the harms of “obesity,” which includes strategies for eradicating the “obesity epidemic.” Public discussions of “excess weight” typically imply that fat persons are responsible for their body size, a…
A cross-cultural examination of fat women’s experiences: Stigma and gender in North American and Finnish culture
In this manuscript, the voices of women of size in North America and Finland indicate that there is a shared experience of being fat. Based on cross-cultural analysis of our respective empirical findings, we argue that there is a shared Western fat lived experience that perpetuates a stigmatized gendered landscape of living with a fat body. The emergent themes tended to revolve around two similar contradictions—the phenomenon of hyper(in)visibili…
Achieving masculinity through sexual predation: The Case of Hogging
Hegemonic masculinity in the contemporary United States involves control, domination, competition, aggression, and the devaluing of women. Hogging, a practice whereby men seek out women they deem unattractive or fat for sexual purposes, has been largely overlooked by scholars. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to explore hogging from a sociology of masculinities perspective. Interviews and content analyses were conducted to learn abo…
An Integrated Model of Attribution of Responsibility for Wrongdoing in Organizations
Sociologists and psychologists have spent several decades attempting to improve our understanding of the factors that influence how people attribute responsibility for outcomes of social action, particularly wrongdoing. Members of two disciplines continue to refine Heider's seminal work in distinct ways, but have not developed a definitive test of attribution of responsibility (AOR) because of the ad hoc nature of existing research. To move towar…
Attribution of Responsibility as a Multidimensional Concept
Attributions of responsibility (AR) are of interest to sociologists and psychologists. However, the measurement of AR has been inconsistent both within and across the disciplines. The present study tests whether AR is a multidimensional or unidimensional concept. Data for study 1 were collected from 201 undergraduate students at a large, midwestern university. Results indicate that there are four factors associated with AR, supporting the content…
Influences and the Assignment of Responsibility for Wrongdoing in Organizational Settings
How do the media and an actor's social role influence a person's perception of organizational wrongdoing? We argue that the manner in which events are framed in media presentations influences how people attribute responsibility, regardless of the actor's social role. In the present study, approximately half of the participants watched a televised media report focusing on organizational causes of wrongdoing; the other half were not exposed to medi…
An Integrated Model of Attribution of Responsibility for Wrongdoing in Organizations
Sociologists and psychologists have spent several decades attempting to improve our understanding of the factors that influence how people attribute responsibility for outcomes of social action, particularly wrongdoing. Members of two disciplines continue to refine Heider's seminal work in distinct ways, but have not developed a definitive test of attribution of responsibility (AOR) because of the ad hoc nature of existing research. To move towar…
Knocking off a Fat Girl: An Exploration of Hogging, Male Sexuality, and Neutralizations
The mistreatment of women in the United States is part of a larger problem of cultural misogyny. Hogging is one of the many forms of mistreatment that is devalued and often overlooked. It is a practice where men seek women who are overweight or unattractive to satisfy their competitive or sexual urges. The purpose of this paper is to understand hogging through men's accounts and use of neutralization techniques. Results indicate that two-thirds o…
Commentary on Knottnerus et al. (2006) `Exposing Enron: Media Representations of Ritualized Deviance in Corporate Culture
Who Is to Blame for Deviance in Organizations? The Role of Scholarly Worldviews
This paper explores two of the most important challenges facing contemporary scholars who seek to assign blame for deviance in organizational contexts. The first concerns the selection of an appropriate level of analysis. The second focuses on the social meaning of intent, or willfulness, also called mens rea in criminal trials. We suggest that scholarly worldviews play a central role in determining how these issues are discussed in the literatur…
Attribution of Responsibility as a Multidimensional Concept
Attributions of responsibility (AR) are of interest to sociologists and psychologists. However, the measurement of AR has been inconsistent both within and across the disciplines. The present study tests whether AR is a multidimensional or unidimensional concept. Data for study 1 were collected from 201 undergraduate students at a large, midwestern university. Results indicate that there are four factors associated with AR, supporting the content…
Influences and the Assignment of Responsibility for Wrongdoing in Organizational Settings
How do the media and an actor's social role influence a person's perception of organizational wrongdoing? We argue that the manner in which events are framed in media presentations influences how people attribute responsibility, regardless of the actor's social role. In the present study, approximately half of the participants watched a televised media report focusing on organizational causes of wrongdoing; the other half were not exposed to medi…
Starving Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have: The Pro-Ana Subculture as Edgework
Achieving masculinity through sexual predation: The Case of Hogging
Hegemonic masculinity in the contemporary United States involves control, domination, competition, aggression, and the devaluing of women. Hogging, a practice whereby men seek out women they deem unattractive or fat for sexual purposes, has been largely overlooked by scholars. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to explore hogging from a sociology of masculinities perspective. Interviews and content analyses were conducted to learn abo…
Power and gender negotiations during interviews with men about sex and sexually degrading practices
The topic of female researchers interviewing male subjects has received previous attention, but few scholarly works focus specifically on sensitive topics such as sexual behaviors. The discrepancy suggests that even though women researchers interview men about sensitive issues, sexuality still seems out of bounds. Based on our research, we found it intellectually and emotionally challenging to interview men about sexually degrading behaviors. In …
Fat Shame to Fat Pride: Fat Women's Sexual and Dating Experiences
The fat female body is typically not considered attractive or sexual in Western culture. Not surprisingly, the scholarship about fat women's dating and sexual histories is deficient. To address this gap, 36 fat-identified women were interviewed about their body image, involvement in the size acceptance movement, and their dating and sexual histories. Results indicated that most participants felt intense body shame and had unsatisfying sex lives u…
The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman: Weight and Gender Discourse in Contemporary Society
In The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women's perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them. The book explores the p
The ‘Fat’ Female Body , by Samantha Murray: Basingstoke, England, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
In The ‘Fat’ Female Body, Samantha Murray challenges the contemporary cultural and social anti-fat discourse and medicalization of “obesity.” When Murray’s book was initially published in 2008, she
Theorizing fat oppression: Intersectional approaches and methodological innovations
The oppression of fat people is built into institutions, pervades the cultural landscape, and affects the relationships and perceptions of people of size. In this introduction to the special issue on fat oppression, we examine the concept of oppression and its place in fat studies before reviewing the extant literature on fat oppression. We also discuss how the articles chosen for this issue contribute to the existing theoretical and empirical un…
A cross-cultural examination of fat women’s experiences: Stigma and gender in North American and Finnish culture
In this manuscript, the voices of women of size in North America and Finland indicate that there is a shared experience of being fat. Based on cross-cultural analysis of our respective empirical findings, we argue that there is a shared Western fat lived experience that perpetuates a stigmatized gendered landscape of living with a fat body. The emergent themes tended to revolve around two similar contradictions—the phenomenon of hyper(in)visibili…
Fiction Meets Reality: A Comparison of Dietland and the Experiences of North American Fat Women
In June of 2018, AMC debuted the series Dietland, a television show about a woman of size named Plum who plans to have weight loss surgery until she begins a journey of self-acceptance. While critics assert that the harms enacted against Plum are exaggerated, we show through 74 in-depth interviews with North American women of size that the representation of Plum’s lived experiences are sadly realistic and, in many instances, mirror those of the w…
The Violence of Fat Hatred in the “Obesity Epidemic” Discourse
The concern globally over the “obesity epidemic” has become one of the most widely discussed social problems over the last twenty or so years. There is an intense focus from the media, popular culture, government agencies, and medical community about the harms of “obesity,” which includes strategies for eradicating the “obesity epidemic.” Public discussions of “excess weight” typically imply that fat persons are responsible for their body size, a…
I don't eat that much: Fatphobia and Women Baby Boomers' Fear of Weight Gain
Approximately 40 million women in the US are over 60 years old, yet there is limited research on older women’s feelings about their ageing bodies. This study examines the corporeal experiences of 44 US women aged 60-plus through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Despite asking questions about other aspects of their body image, participants focused primarily on their weight, size, and their fears of weight gain. Interviewees framed their weigh…
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