Karen Throsby has been researching issues of gender, technology, bodies and health for over 20 years, including work on reproductive technologies, weight loss surgery and endurance sport. She is the author of Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Identity and Embodiment (2016) and When IVF Fails: Feminist, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality (2004). She is currently Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.
‘Challenging and in the best traditions of critical social science, Karen Throsby unsettles popular misconstructions of the evils of sugar by situating recent controversies in their broader socio-cultural context.’ Dr. Alan Warde, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester -- .