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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464666303321

Titolo

Queering fat embodiment / / edited by Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes and Samantha Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-07249-9

1-317-07248-0

1-4094-6543-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Queer Interventions

Disciplina

306.7601

Soggetti

Queer theory

Obesity - Social aspects

Human body - Social aspects

Identity (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Why Queering Fat Embodiment?; 2 Queering Body Size and Shape: Performativity, the Closet, Shame and Orientation; 3 Becoming Travolta; 4 The Performance of Fat: The Spectre Outside the House of Desire; 5 On Fatness and Fluidity: A Meditation; 6 Chubby Boys with Strap-Ons: Queering Fat Transmasculine Embodiment; 7 Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace; 8 Flaunting Fat: Sex with the Lights On

9 Queering the Linkages and Divergences: The Relationship between Fatness and Disability and the Hope for a Livable World 10 Bear Arts Naked: Queer Activism and the Fat Male Body; 11 Fashion's 'Forgotten Woman': How Fat Bodies Queer Fashion and Consumption; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shedding light on the ways in which fat embodiment is lived, experienced, regulated and (re)produced across a range of cultural sites and contexts, Queering Fat Embodiment destabilizes established



ideas about fat bodies, making explicit the intersectionality of fat identities and thereby countering the assertion that fat studies has in recent years reproduced a white, ableist, heteronormative subjectivity in its analyses.