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UNINA9910464666303321 |
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Titolo |
Queering fat embodiment / / edited by Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes and Samantha Murray |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-07249-9 |
1-317-07248-0 |
1-4094-6543-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (170 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Queer theory |
Obesity - Social aspects |
Human body - Social aspects |
Identity (Psychology) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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