“Postfeminist ‘Thin’ Feminities”

Over the past year, I have observed significant and transformational changes in how health and health subjectivities are discussed and publicly understood. This article makes a theoretical and analytic intervention into critical health studies to excavate what I have termed postfeminist thin femininities . Specifically, I use materiality and sociality to address the complexities of hegemonic good health . In doing so, I draw on the popularisation of Ozempic, used as a catch-all term to refer to a class of weight loss drugs traditionally used to treat diabetes, as a locus through which to think through embodiment and femininity as thinness. I then extend this to examine the intensification of how good health is understood under capitalism and explore how it can be understood otherwise – namely, via health as justice .