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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 We all want to be thin. Why aren't we? -- 1. Does dieting work? -- 2. Is exercise the answer? -- 3. Can drugs or surgery make us thin? -- 4. Is fatness inherited? -- Part 2 Why our modern world makes us fat -- 5. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating -- 6. How the economics of food puts more of it on our plates -- 7. How we're sold on junk food -- 8. How the overweight are stigmatised -- Part 3 What we can do about it -- 9. How governments can flick the switch -- Conclusion: Rise up -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Copyright Page.

Abstract
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.