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Bodies out of bounds : fatness and transgression / edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Body image--Social aspects--Miscellanea.
- Body image.
- Discrimination against overweight persons--Miscellanea.
- Discrimination against overweight persons.
- Obesity--Social aspects--Miscellanea.
- Obesity.
- Overweight women--Social aspects--Miscellanea.
- Overweight women.
- Physical-appearance-based bias--Miscellanea.
- Physical-appearance-based bias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant perceptions by examining social representations of the fat body.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; 1 Fat Beauty; 2 A "Horror of Corpulence": Interrogating Bantingism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fat-Phobia; 3 Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship; 4 Queering Fat Bodies/Politics; 5 Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo: A Fat Man's Recipe for Chicano Revolution; 6 Resisting Venus: Negotiating Corpulence in Exercise Videos; 7 Fighting Abjection: Representing Fat Women; 8 Roscoe Arbuckle and the Scandal of Fatness; 9 Setting Free the Bears: Refiguring Fat Men on Television
- 10 "It's not over until the fat lady sings": Comedy, the Carnivalesque, and Body Politics 11 Devouring Women: Corporeality and Autonomy in Fiction by Women Since the 1960's; 12 Sex and Fat Chics: Deterritorializing the Fat Female Body; 13 "She's so fat . . .": Facing the Fat Lady at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore; 14 Fatties on Stage: Feminist Performances; 15 Divinity: A Dossier, a Performance Piece, a Little-Understood Emotion; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93551-9
- 1-59734-505-9
- OCLC:
- 475929530
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