Published Research

Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood (New York University Press, 2008). Read the Introduction here.

"Revisiting What Rights Do: Fat, Health, and Antidiscrimination,"Studies in Law, Politics and Society (forthcoming 2008).

"Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement, " Law & Society Review, Volume 42, No. 2 (June 2008):397-431.

"What's at Stake in Transgender Discrimination as Sex Discrimination?," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , Volume 32, No. 1 (Autumn 2006): 83-111.

"What's at Stake in Fatness as a Disability?," Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 26, No. 1 (Winter 2006).

"When Transgendered People Sue and Win: Feminist Reflections on Strategy, Activism, and the Legal Process," in Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin, eds., The Fire This Time: Young Feminists and the New Activism (Anchor Books, 2004).

"Victorious Transsexuals in the Courtroom: A Challenge for Feminist Legal Theory," Law & Social Inquiry, Volume 28, No. 1 (March 2003): 1-37.

"Representations of Fatness and Personhood: Pro-Fat Advocacy and the Limits and Uses of Law," Representations, No. 82 (Spring 2003): 24-51.

"Governing Obesity" (working paper).

Co-editor with Jonathan Metzl, Against Health: Has Health Become the New Morality?

"Undergraduates' Conceptions of Diversity after Gratz" (mixed methodology project with Ben Hansen)