The article offers an analysis of living with a fat body and ways of experiencing it in everyday life in the context of stigmatization of this type of corporality. Biographical interviews with fat people of varying socio-demographic profiles were conducted. The participants mainly medicalize and internalize the stigma of fatness and manage it specifically by passing, covering, and coming out.
In transgender people, fatness may never take on the characteristics of a stigma, but instead allows the individual to obscure another stigma or conform to social expectations of appearance in line with the gender identity.
Her main research interests lie in the sociology of sexuality queer communities and activism and the sociology of higher education and science plagiarism and cheating, methodological and ethical problems in conducting social research studies.
She published the book Potencjał zmiany. Anna Wójtewicz is a sociologist and an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. Her main research interests lie in the sociology of the body, the sociology of consumption and consumer culture, and gender studies.
She also deals with the methodology of qualitative research, with particular emphasis on in-depth interviews and biographical interviews. Katarzyna Mańkowska is a cognitive scientist and a Ph. Her research interests extend to two disciplines. After graduating, she became interested in the sociology of gender and sexuality.
