Gordofobia, derecho y cuerpos disidentes: una mirada  comparada sociojurídica entre Francia y España

Collantes Sánchez, Beatriz

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Gordofobia, derecho y cuerpos disidentes: una mirada comparada sociojurídica entre Francia y España

dc.contributor.author	Collantes Sánchez, Beatriz
dc.contributor.department	Sin departamento asociado
dc.date.accessioned	2026-03-30T09:06:05Z
dc.date.available	2026-03-30T09:06:05Z
dc.date.issued	2026
dc.description.abstract	This article examines fatphobia as a form of structural violence at the intersection of law, health, and culture, through a comparative analysis of France and Spain. Drawing on a theoretical framework that brings together biopower (Foucault), feminist and decolonial critiques of the body (Bordo; Strings; Vergès; Moreno Figueroa), and the notions of stigma (Goffman) and bodily/erotic capital (Bourdieu; Moreno Pestaña), I argue that law operates as a somatocratic technology: by adopting weight-centric biomedical parameters (e.g., BMI), it legitimizes the exclusion of fat bodies in employment and healthcare settings. Methodology: documentary analysis of legislation and public policies, and a selective review of case law and institutional reports (FR/ES). Findings: (i) both legal systems rely on general equality principles and lack explicit recognition of fatphobia as a protected category; (ii) in France, the category “physical appearance” and the role of the Défenseur des droits have fostered a nascent institutionalization of the issue; (iii) in Spain, sporadic jurisprudential advances coexist with regulatory gaps. Conclusion: a bodily justice agenda is proposed, including the legal recognition of fatphobia as a ground of discrimination, the revision of exclusionary bodily requirements, and legal education with an intersectional approach.
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dc.identifier.citation	Sociología Histórica (2026), Vol. 16, núm. 1, pp. 570-597
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.669331
dc.identifier.eissn	2255-3851
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/224121
dc.language	spa
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
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dc.subject	Normative Bodies
dc.subject	Law and Embodiment
dc.subject	Biopower
dc.subject	Gordofobia
dc.subject	Cuerpos Normativos
dc.subject	Derecho y Corporalidades
dc.subject	Biopoder
dc.subject	Fatphobia
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.title	Gordofobia, derecho y cuerpos disidentes: una mirada comparada sociojurídica entre Francia y España
dc.title.alternative	Fatphobia, legal orders, and bodies that resist: A comparative socio‑legal inquiry into France and Spain
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