Jeannine A. Gailey, Ph.D.

Professor

j.gailey@tcu.edu 817-257-5942Scharbauer HallTCU Box 298710

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal Arts Sociology & Anthropology

Ph.D., University of Akron (2005)
MA, University of Akron (2002)
BA, Mount Union College (2000)

Sociology of the Body, Fat Studies

Prohaska, Ariane, and Gailey, Jeannine A., editors. 2021. “Fat Oppression around the World: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary, and Methodological Innovations.” Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Fat-Oppression-around-the-World-Intersectional-Interdisciplinary-and/Prohaska-Gailey/p/book/9781003158974
Gailey, Jeannine A. 2021. “The Violence of Fat Hatred in the ‘Obesity Epidemic’”. Humanity and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597621995501
Gailey, Jeannine A. and Hannele Harjunen. 2019. “A Cross-Cultural Examination of Fat Women’s Bodies: Stigma and Gender in North American and Finnish Culture.” Feminism & Psychology, 29(3), 374–390. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353518819582
Taylor, Hannah and Jeannine A. Gailey. 2019. “Fiction Meets Reality: A Comparison of Dietland and the Experiences of North American Fat Women”, Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Weight and Body Size, DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2019.1644984
Gailey, Jeannine A. The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman: Weight and Gender Discourse in Contemporary Society. 2014. Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137407160

Last Updated: September 30, 2025