With all of these great posts and comments on eating and body image, I want to remind everyone of the upcoming IJFAB special issues, “JUST FOOD: Bioethics, Gender, and the Ethics of Eating” and “See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness.” You can find the full CPFs here. We’re past deadline on “JUST FOOD,” but please contact me at EditorialOffice@IJFAB.org if you have something you might be able to send soon. The deadline for the latter is April 1, 2015. It will be guest edited by Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs. I quote in part from the CFP:

Fitness is a neglected concept in bioethics but fitness is of key importance to women’s health and well-being. Blogging at Fit, Feminist, and (almost) Fifty Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs have been exploring the connections between women’s bodies, the medicalization of women’s health, and the multimillion dollar fitness industry. Until recently the focus of feminist criticism was on diet and weight loss, while ‘fitness’ was thought to be benign. More recently feminists have been engaging with the rhetoric of fitness as well. Some of the issues discussed show that there are significant impediments to women’s flourishing associated with fitness talk: fat shaming, body image, the tyranny of dieting, the narrow aesthetic ideal of femininity and how antithetical it is to athleticism, the sexualization of female athletes, women and competition, issues about entitlement, inclusion, and exclusion, the way expectations about achievement are gender variable, the harms of stereotyping. Feminists have begun to interrogate the very assumptions about what constitutes “fitness” in the first place. How is fitness connected to ableism and non-disabled privilege? Sport and fitness provide us with microcosms of more general feminist concerns about power, privilege, entitlement, and socialization.

Do consider submitting a manuscript. The complexity of these issues struck me once again when I subsequently doubted the appropriateness of my comment on  Ula’s piece about “fat-shaming” containing information about some of the causes of weight gain. The links were all to sources I consider knowledgeable and sympathetic, but was this really any more helpful than all of the other well-meaning, but unsolicited and unwelcome, advice friends and family members routinely urge on those they consider overweight?

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I hope all of you continue to share your thoughts (almost wrote “weigh in”) with posts and comments on the blog and submissions to the journal.