This is a reminder to please consider submitting a manuscript for consideration in IJFAB's upcoming special issue, 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.

The deadline is April 1, 2015. 

Find the full CPF at http://www.ijfab.org/cfp.html#9.2. Direct any questions to [log in to unmask] or to the guest editors at [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]

Please distribute widely.

(Apologies, as usual, for the cross-posting.)

Thank-you,

Patrick J. Welsh
Managing Editor

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