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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780593303321

Autore

Braziel Jana Evans

Titolo

Bodies Out of Bounds [[electronic resource] ] : Fatness and Transgression

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001

ISBN

0-520-93551-9

1-59734-505-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeBescoKathleen

Disciplina

306.4

616.3/98/0019

Soggetti

Beauty

Body image

Body image - Social aspects - Miscellanea

Discrimination against overweight persons

Obesity

Obesity-- Social aspects-- Miscellanea

Overweight women

Overweight women - Social aspects - Miscellanea

Physical-appearance-based bias

Prejudices

Overnutrition

Overweight

Perception

Psychology, Social

Esthetics

Nutrition Disorders

Body Weight

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Mental Processes

Thinking

Philosophy

Signs and Symptoms

Body Size

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Diseases

Body Weights and Measures

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Body Constitution



Physiological Phenomena

Physical Examination

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Diagnosis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.