Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ufts20 Download by: [Pace University Pleasantville], [Jason Whitesel] Date: 15 January 2016, At: 10:06 Fat Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society ISSN: 2160-4851 (Print) 2160-486X (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ufts20 Discursive entanglements, diffractive readings: Weight-loss-surgery narratives of Girth & Mirthers Jason Whitesel & Amy Shuman To cite this article: Jason Whitesel & Amy Shuman (2016) Discursive entanglements, diffractive readings: Weight-loss-surgery narratives of Girth & Mirthers, Fat Studies, 5:1, 32-56 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2016.1112146 Published online: 15 Jan 2016. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data