Publications & Presentations

Boero, Natalie C

Publications & Presentations

Publications

Boero, Natalie. Forthcoming. Fat Panic: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemicâ€. Rutgers University Press.

Boero, Natalie. Forthcoming. Review Essay of Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study. American Journal of Sociology.

Boero, Natalie. Forthcoming. “Fat Kids, Working Moms, and the “Epidemic of Obesityâ€: Race, Class, and Mother-Blame.†in The Fat Studies Reader. Rothblum, E. and Solovay, S. Eds. New York University Press.

Boero, Natalie. Forthcoming. “Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure.† in Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in U.S. Biomedicine.  Clarke, A. Shim, J. Mamo, L. Fosket, J. Fishman, J. Eds. Duke University Press.

Boero, Natalie. 2007. “All the News that’s Fat to Print: The American ‘Obesity Epidemic’ and the Media.†Qualitative Sociology 30, 1, 41-61.

Boero, Natalie. 2000. “Constructionist Perspectives on Body Weight: A Critical Review†Review Essay, BerkeleyJournal of Sociology, vol. 44 1999-2000.

Presentations

“The Construction of Femininity on Pro-Anorexia Discussion Groups.†Co-presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, 2008.

“No Wannarexics Allowed:The Creation of Community on Pro-Anorexia & Pro-Bulimia    Blogs & Websites.†Co-presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, 2007.

“Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure†presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, 2005.

“All the News that’s Fat to Print: The American ‘Obesity Epidemic’ and the Media,†presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, 2003.

“Foucault, Fatness, and Normalization,†presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, 2001.

“Thighs, Lies, and the BMI: Fatness and the Politics of Medicalization,†presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, 2000.

“Life is Too Short for Self-Hatred and Celery Sticks: Identity Construction and the Size Acceptance Movement,†presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, 1998.

“Get a Job, Bum: A Socialist Feminist Analysis of the White, Able-Bodied, Homeless Male,†presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, 1997.

“To Be or Not to Be a FEMINIST: an Attitudinal Inventory,†presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, 1996.

“Teach Me Tonight: Homelessness, Ethnography, and the Re-construction of a Radical Sociology,†(co-author) presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, 1995.

“Homeless Female Sex Workers: An Ethnography,†presented at the Lewis and Clark Gender Symposium, 1994.

Invited Guest lecturer: Sociology/Anthropology senior seminar. Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, November 2001