Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Fatness and Blackness: A Compelling Coincidence of Erasure Chapter 2 Reshaping Identity Chapter 3 The Anatomy of Sexual Unruliness Chapter 4 Bodily Abundance Chapter 5 Spectacles of Size: The Performing Bodies of Fat Black Women Chapter 6 Consumption and Control: The "Epidemic" of Fatness

About the Author

Andrea Elizabeth Shaw is Assistant Director of the Division of Humanities and Assistant Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.