Natalie Boero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at San Jose
State University. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in
2006 and A BA in Sociology from Linfield College in 1996. Her first book, Killer Fat:
Media, Medicine and Morals in the American Obesity Epidemic is forthcoming from Rutgers
University Press. The book is a sociological investigation of the development and
significance of the American obesity epidemic 

With Professor C.J. Pascoe she is currently co-authoring a book entitled Anas, Mias and
Wannas: Identity and Community in a Pro-Ana Subculture. In it they examine online
pro-eating disorder communities.

Books

Link

Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American 'Obesity' Epidemic, Co-Presented at the Gender, Bodies, and Technology conference (2012)
 

Articles

Pro-Anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-Ana Body Online (with CJ Pascoe), Body and Society (2012)
 
Review Essay of Body Panic: Gender, Heath, and the Selling of Fitness, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews (2010)
 
Review Essay of “Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study”, American Journal of Sociology (2009)
 
All the News that’s Fat to Print: The American ‘Obesity Epidemic’ and the Media, Qualitative Sociology (2007)
 
Constructionist Perspectives on Body Weight: A Critical Review Review Essay, Berkeley Journal of Sociology (2000)
 

Contributions to Books

Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure, Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in U.S. (2010)
 
Fat Kids, Working Moms, and the Epidemic of Obesity Race, Class, and Mother-Blame, The Fat Studies Reader (2010)
 

Presentations

Invited Panelist, Conference on “Obesity, Eating Disorders, and the Media" (2011)
 
Ambivalence: Complicating the Pro-Ana Community, American Sociological Association (2011)
 
Love, Hate, and Everything in Between: Ambivalence in Pro-Anorexia Discussion Groups, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings (2011)
 
Invited Speaker, panel discussion of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in U.S. Biomedicine, University of California, San Francisco department of Medical Anthropology colloquium series (2010)
 
Invited Speaker, panel discussion of Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in U.S. Biomedicine (2010)
 

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